> On May 27, 2015, at 10:04 AM, David Hill <david.h...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 5/24/15, 10:56 AM, Scott Palmer wrote: >> Where can I find the instructions for building Scene Builder from source? >> >> >> I ran Ant in the apps/scenebuilder folder and it produced >> SceneBuilderApp.jar in the 'SceneBuilderApp/dist' folder. But where's the >> rest of it? It looks like the javapackager part does run automatically, so >> I don't have a native executable with a nice icon and all those finishing >> touches that make it a "real" app. > I am in the process of adding a "run" command to the ant script. We do not > have plans at the moment to add a packaging step.
What happened to the original packaging step? The Oracle download is a packaged app, was it a manual step or something? I can’t even find the application icon in the source. >> >> I did notice the build output print a "jfx-deployment:" step, but I guess >> that is something else. I haven't used Ant in years, so I'm a little >> rusty. I was actually surprised that there wasn't a Gradle script in the >> apps/SceneBuilder folder. I thought perhaps the apps are just using the >> default NetBeans project format. I then noticed when loading the project >> in NetBeans that I didn't get the little "FX" decal on the coffee cup icon, >> so it isn't a NetBean "JavaFX" project. > When I added in the building of the apps in the overall tree, I was > constrained by several things that gradle does not (or did not) play nicely > with. > We wanted to treat most of the items as independent sub projects, and at > least some of them have ant scripts that needed to be included in the samples > bundles. > > To shorten the story, after a long while of tinkering, I found that for our > purposes, ant worked better for us. Gradle imports the ant projects, and > allows us to call into them. Fair enough, there’s only so much tinkering one can take, I’ve been through a fair bit of Gradle tinkering myself. (My hope is that one day OpenJDK + OpenJFX will build simply with ‘grade build', using Gradle’s support for native builds. Especially on Windows where it would simplify things a lot if you can avoid dependencies on Cygwin or MinGW. Gradle’s native support is still incubating so it is a bit early to go there, but I’ve used it recently for some Java +JNI projects on Linux, Mac, and Windows (with Visual Studio, not GCC) and it actually worked quite well.) Scott
