[Laszlo-dev] LzTrack.lzs

[P T Withington]

If I use the targets `make` or `build`, the doc does not get built.   
What target are you using that builds the doc?

On 2009-09-01, at 08:11, Raju Bitter wrote:

> 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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