Ah, I see what you're saying, but I don't think the same set of circumstances apply here. The ant build will not modify any of the files in SVN, so there's no need to copy the tree over and build off a copy. You can run ant from within the SVN folder itself (I do), ant it'll *create* ant-bin folders (with the default build target), but those folders aren't part of SVN and won't hurt anything as far as SVN is concerned.
-T On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Scott Lanham <[email protected]> wrote: > It kind of helps :-) > > The best way I can convey what I am looking for is to generally describe > what > I do with a c++ project I am involved in. > > For the project I might have a directory called /devel/someProject that > contains the source files. When using cmake to build the project I would > create another directory called /devel/someProject_build. Initially it is > just > a blank directory. I change to this blank directory and type "cmake > /devel/someProject". Cmake will fill the /devel/someProject_build directory > with a structure that is required for the build, then I run "make" in that > same directory and the binaries are created. So there is never any worry > that > the original source directory is modified during a build. Also when I run > make > in the build directory after the initial run it always picks up changes > from > /devel/someProject. > > What I would like to do with Pivot is have a SVN source directory that is > never modified except for svn updates and a separate build directory that I > can > run ant in that my project uses. At the moment I copy the SVN sources > across > to a new location and run ant in the copy. > > Cheers, > > Scott. > > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:46:48 am Greg Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by "fill" the directory. > > > > If you run "ant package", the build script will create a lib directory > > containing all the JARs you need. For the tutorials, that includes: > > > > pivot-core-1.3-incubating.jar > > pivot-web-1.3-incubating.jar > > pivot-wtk-1.3-incubating.jar > > pivot-wtk-1.3-incubating.terra.jar > > > > You can then put these files wherever you like. They just need to be > > on your project's classpath. > > > > Does that help? > > > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > > > Yes I successfully built Pivot. > > > > > > What I want to do is go to a blank directory and somehow invoke ant > > > to fill > > > that directory rather than modifying the original project source. At > > > the > > > moment I am just doing a straight up copy of the whole project and > > > running the > > > build in the copy. > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:52:10 pm Greg Brown wrote: > > >> How are you currently invoking Ant? Are you able to build the project > > >> at all? > > >> > > >> On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I am a complete novice when it comes to using ant. Is there a way I > > >>> can tell > > >>> ant to build Pivot in a different directory from the source? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> > > >>> Scott. > >
