Ideally, we would have both the 'old compiler' and Falcon in the normal
SDK. This would, I think, benefit all three projects - yours, FlexJS/VF2JS
and the normal SDK itself (the latter because it would help start the
transition from 'old' to 'new'.

EdB




On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:

> Just forgot to ask,
>
> Another question ... when using Falcon, is there any difference in the
> Framework part? Are the swcs the same as in the normal SDK? If yes, what
> exactly is different?
>
> At least this would be what I am currently expecting. I know I will have
> to reference other things when starting to use FlexJS, but at the moment I
> just want to have my application compiled using the new Compiler.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014 17:54
> An: dev@flex.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: Mavenizing Falcon
>
> Gordon or Darrell might know the real answer.
>
> If you build the Falcon repo or unpack a binary package, you should see a
> compiler/lib folder.  In it are the external dependencies require by the
> build.  Antlr, Commons-io, Commons-cli, guava, Jburg, Jflex, LZMA.
>
> Pretty sure Jburg is need to build, but not to run.  Pretty sure
> Commons-io and Commons-cli is need to run as well as LZMA.
>
> Not sure about Antr and Jflex.  Might only be build tools.
>
> In generated/dist/sdk/lib are the jars that result from the build.  They
> are:
> Compiler.jar
> Falcon-asc.jar
> Falcon-compc.jar
> Falcon-mxmlc.jar
> Falcon-optimizer.jar
> Falcon-swfdump.jar
> Flex-oem-compiler.jar
>
> Pretty sure you want the first 5, although really, I think falcon-asc,
> falcon-compc, falcon-mxmlc use call compiler.jar.  Not sure how the
> optimizer works.  The 5 jars can be moved into a lib folder with the
> compiler/lib jars so they are all in one place.
>
> You don't need falcon-swfdump unless you want to dump SWFs, and
> flex-oem-compiler.jar is only for FB integration.
>
> AFAIK, these jars do not have dependencies on the current Flex SDK.  When
> we build up an overlaid SDK we move the current SDK compiler to a
> bin-legacy and lib-legacy folder, but that's just so folks can revert back
> if Falcon isn't working.  Also, the old SWFDump is much better, IMO.
>
> HTH
> -Alex
>
> On 7/13/14 7:42 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >After my latest Mavenizer and Flexmojos changes seem to compile all of
> >my Flex projects without problems, I wanted to get started on adding
> >Falcon support.
> >Now instead of re-deploying the entire compiler, I would much more like
> >to have the falcon-compiler depend on the normal compiler by
> >referencing the falcon libs and adding a dependency on the normal
> >compiler artifact and exclude the old compiler libs.
> >
> >Could someone here on the list please describe me exactly which libs
> >Falcon consists of and where I can get them from as well as which libs
> >in the classic sdk are needed? I think being able to switch the
> >compilers by changing a dependency in maven would make experimenting a
> lot easier.
> >
> >Chris
>
>


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