Building GWT From Source

Owned by Mike Wenk
Last updated: Oct 04, 2010Version comment

Build GWT From Source : 2008-05-17

  • Checkout source code
  • 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