[Laszlo-dev] LzTrack.lzs

[Raju Bitter]

if you modify the build.properties, you can skip generation of the  
documentation.

# Comment out this line to enable the doc build
# With this line present, we will skip the doc build
# skip.doc = true

On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:56 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> `ant build` will build the server jar and the lfc.  You don't need  
> to use this path if you are just debugging the lfc, as noted in my  
> previous message.  Build and install the server jar, then use the  
> buildlfc scripts to rebuild the lfc and test by forcing your browser  
> to reload the app with the new lfc (e.g., clearing the browser cache  
> or setting the browser to always reload from the server).
>
> If you cannot update the build instructions on the wiki directly,  
> yes please report them.  We try to keep them up to date for  
> contributors like you!
>
> On 2009-09-01, at 07:38, Rami Ojares / AMG Oy wrote:
>
>> Thanks PT,
>>
>> Yes I did find the build instructions and they were great...but had  
>> some (very minor) mistakes.
>> I could report them to Henry if he wants.
>> Anyway the more challanging issue I had with building was that the  
>> forked laszlo compiler was running
>> out of memory so I had to also set "JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx256m" in order to  
>> get enough of memory for the forked jvm.
>>
>> And I found the answer to my own question.
>> The core lfc classes are compiled into
>> LASZLO_ROOT/lps/includes/lfc directory
>> .swc files for swf9 & swf10
>> .lzl files for swf8
>> .js files for dhtml
>>
>> I provided a fix for LPP-8379 in Jira so have a look.
>> What I would like is to have a build target that
>> - creates the laszlo servlet
>> - does not need tomcat
>> - does not invoke any documentation tasks (so I don't have to wait  
>> forever)
>>
>> Is there such a thing?
>>
>> - Rami Ojares
>>
>> P T Withington wrote:
>>> The instructions for rebuilding the LFC are here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/SubversionBuildInstructions
>>>
>>> The top-level build target is
>>>
>>> ant make
>>>
>>> This will recompile any changes and re-install the server in tomcat.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> If you have set up that environment and want to quickly build a  
>>> test lfc for a particular back-end, you need to be in the directory
>>>
>>> WEB-INF/lps/lfc
>>>
>>> In there are shell scripts for invoking the correct ant procedure  
>>> to build.  Note that there is a separate script for building the  
>>> non-debug, debug, and backtrace-enabled LFC, unfortunately.  It is  
>>> easy to confuse yourself by building one version and testing  
>>> another.  Also, you may have to use your browser's debugger to  
>>> empty its cache and force it to reload the LFC.  These are the  
>>> scripts:
>>>
>>> ./buildlfc
>>> ./buildlfcdebug
>>> ./buildlfcbacktrace
>>>
>>> The all take a --runtime option.  To build the swf9 debug runtime,  
>>> you would say:
>>>
>>> ./buildlfc --runtime=swf9
>>>
>>> There is no bactracing in swf9 (yet).  But the wiki article above  
>>> tells how to get the Flash debug player and use fdb to debug swf9  
>>> code.
>>>
>>> If you are debugging generic code (not code for a particular  
>>> platform), you may find it easier to debug using the DHTML runtime  
>>> which has built-in backtracing and which you can use the browser  
>>> debugger (e.g., Firebug for Firefox) to do low-level debugging with.
>>>
>>> We hope you will consider contributing your fixes back!
>>>
>>> On 2009-08-31, at 07:03, Rami Ojares / AMG Oy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to fix some bugs in LzTrackService.
>>>> I got the compilation process working but I don't have a clear  
>>>> grasp yet of what is going in there although I browsed through  
>>>> the ant files.
>>>>
>>>> My question is this:
>>>>
>>>> The source file: LzTrack.lzs is located in WEB-INF/lps/lfc/ 
>>>> services/LzTrack.lzs
>>>> But where is the generated compiled file?
>>>>
>>>> I tracked it down to app.swc in some obscure tmp folder but there  
>>>> the tracks got colder.
>>>>
>>>> I would just like to compile this lzTrack.lzs and then put it in  
>>>> my own laszlo distribution for trying it out.
>>>> But which file do I copy and from where?
>>>>
>>>> - Rami Ojares
>>>
>>
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