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