Building GWT From Source

Build GWT From Source : 2008-05-17

• Checkout source code

  • svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tools/ ~/src/gwt-tools

  • svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ ~/src/gwt-trunk

• Setting environment variable

  • setenv GWT_TOOLS ${HOME}/src/gwt-tools

  • setevn GWT_EXTERNAL_BROWSER /usr/bin/firefox

• Set maven 2 settings.xml properties for your profile:

  • <properties> <gwt.version>1.5.0</gwt.version> <gwt.home>${user.home}Installs/GWT/gwt-linux-${gwt.version}</gwt.home> </properties>

• Build gwt-trunk

  • cd ~/src/gwt-trunk

  • ant

• The GWT build creates each binary distribution in the build/dist subdirectory of the source root directory

  • ls ~/src/gwt-trunk/build/dist

    • gwt-linux-0.0.0.tar.bz2, gwt-mac-0.0.0.tar.gz, gwt-windows-0.0.0.zip

• Unpack the binary that matches your operation system

  • tar xvzf gwt-mac-0.0.0.tar.gz

  • mv gwt-mac-0.0.0 ~/local

  • cd ~local; ln -s gwt-mac-0.0.0 gwt

• Add GWT binary root folder to execution path

  • setenv PATH ${PATH}:${HOME}/local/gwt