How to build openjfx in its current state

[Richard Bair]

Hi Mario,

It looks like the open build has deteriorated, probably while we've been open sourcing things we haven't been diligent about keeping the open build up to date (I know I haven't). Now that I'm looking at it, there are numerous issues:

	- Some of the projects are not declaring dependencies in project.properties correctly
	- The build order in build.xml "dist" target is wrong
	- Projects are missing from build.xml "dist" target

The reason it has built before has been luck -- the projects are out of order, but they're building anyway because the jfxrt.jar is acting as a backstop. But if you were to modify sources in one project and wanted to depend on it from another project, you'd run into these problems.

Now that a *lot* of stuff is in the open, I'm trying to build without linking to jfxrt.jar. I should get pretty far on that. Once the build is succeeding up to the point it should, then I'll test against a stripped down jfxrt.jar (that only contains the closed bits) so that I can make sure the open build is working correctly.

Richard

On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:00 AM, Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> The build instructions for building OpenJFX seems a bit outdated (or I'm
> reading them wrong), and no matter how I try I always get compilation
> failures (I'm trying OpenJFX 8 :).
> 
> Dalibor presentation at FOSDEM was about this how to build OpenJFX from
> sources, but I didn't take notes :)
> 
> Is it possible to have a quick refresher?
> 
> And speaking about that, I remember that Richard was doing some
> experiments with Gradle, did you made some progress in that regard or is
> there anything we can do to help on that?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 
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