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HOWTO Compile JW Player from Longtail on Windows

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Okay today we will learn howto compile Actionscript, and JW Player on Windows Vista.

Normally I only work on Linux but since I have never done this I took the dummy way out. Sue me :P

Okay We will need this software:

* Flex SDK 3.3: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Downloads
* Ant 1.7.0: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
* FlexUnit 4: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexunit/FlexUnit (for testing the player)

Make sure you get Flex version 3.3!! This is so Important otherwise you’ll get strange errors.

Okay I put Flex in this directory:

C:\Program Files\Adobe Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.3.0\

Inside this directory is the following contents:

ant
asdoc
bin
build.properties
build.xml
frameworks
lib
license-mpl.htm
readme-open.htm
samples
templates

That’s Flex done.
Now for Ant

I downloaded ant and put it in the directory

C:\ant

There is no install, just copy the files. Inside the directory is the following contents:

bin
docs
etc
fetch.xml
get-m2.xml
INSTALL
KEYS
lib
LICENSE
NOTICE
README
WHATSNEW

That’s Ant done.

Now for JAVA SDK. I downloaded this file:
jdk-6u21-windows-i586.exe and installed it. I chose the location:

C:\jdk_6

That’s JAVA SDK done.

Now grab your version of the JW Player source, and copy it to your C drive. My source is in this directory.

C:\trunk\fl5\

Inside this directory is the following contents:

assets
bin-release
build
doc
libs   ###NOTE### THIS DIRECTORY I COPIED FROM THE FLEX DIRECTORY
C:\Program Files\Adobe Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.3.0\frameworks
player.swf
player.xml
README.txt
src
test
yt.as
yt.fla
yt.swf

That’s our source Done!
Now before we compile to open up our command line and give the following commands. You have to do this everytime you restart Windows and before you want to compile.

set ANT_HOME=c:\ant
set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk_6
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

Now for the goodstuff or the bad stuff, to compile the source code in the command line, navigate to

C:\ant\bin and give this command

ant -buildfile C:\trunk\fl5\build\build.xml

And that’s it! Good luck! Let’s go have a beer :P

Winston

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