[flexcoders] How use an environment variable in a custom config.xml given to mxmlc ?

[Yannick Lacaute]

Hi, I am using FlexAntTask and I am using a custom config.xml, given to
mxmlc like this:

<mxmlc ... >
     <load-config filename="${APP_ROOT_DIR}/${APP_CONFIG_FILE}"/>
     <compiler.source-path path-element="${SRC_DIR}"/>
</mxmlc>

It works, but i can't use environment variables in the config.xml, unless
${FLEX_HOME}  !!

<flex-config>
    <compiler>
        <library-path>
            ...

<path-element>${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/libs</path-element>


<path-element>${THORPORA_HOME}/swc/org/thorpora/lib/ThorporaUILib.swc</path-element>
        </library-path>
       ...

The ${THORPORA_HOME} make this error (in french yeah ^^) :
  [mxmlc] D:\workspace\ThorporaTextEditorLibTest\build.app.xml(23): Erreur:
la valeur de la variable de configuration compiler.library-path contient le
jeton inconnu THORPORA_HOME
  [mxmlc]         </library-path>


At the begenning of my ant script, I check environment variables and we can
see:

prepare:
     [echo] PROJECT.TYPE set to Application
     [echo] PROJECT.NAME set to ThorporaTextEditorLibTest
     [echo] FLEX_HOME set to D:\app\Adobe\flex_sdk_4.0.0.10485
     [echo] ANT_HOME set to D:\app\apache-ant-1.7.1
     [echo] THORPORA_HOME set to D:\workspace\ThorporaHome

Both ${FLEX_HOME} and ${THORPORA_HOME} are correct, but only ${FLEX_HOME}
works.

I tryied a lot's of others name like "${TEST}", "$TEST", {TEST}, in user and
system environment, with machine reboot, etc, only ${FLEX_HOME} works...
(!!)

Is that a bug ? Can't we use an environment variable in a custom config.xml
? (or just a variable from the build.xml ^^)
Can you tell where are the best places to post this kind of problem ?

It's stange becasue flex-config.xml use things like
{targetPlayerMajorVersion}, it is a variable, so it should be possible to do
same... do you know whre is defined targetPlayerMajorVersion ?

Sorry, many questions... :)
Thanks.

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Yannick Lacaute