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
- ls ~/src/gwt-trunk/build/dist
- 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