BuildingFromSVN

Introduction

If all you need are nightly build, then please have a look at the NightlyBuilds_and_MavenRepository wiki for details.

Compiling from Source

Checking Out the Source from Subversion

Checking out the SmartGWT source is most useful if you plan to compile SmartGWT yourself. The pre-built SmartGWT distribution already contains all the Java source, so you don't actually need to check it out from the repository just to debug through it. Just tweak your IDE to read source from the SmartGWT jars.

SmartGWT is hosted on Google Code project hosting, so you check out the source for SmartGWT using a Subversion client as you would for any other project hosted on Google Code:

svn checkout http://smartgwt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ trunk

The project source code access page has additional instructions for browsing the source online or getting a Subversion client if you don't already have one.

Here's a good writeup if you're using Eclipse : http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=3206.

Compiling from Source

Everything is Java source that can be built with the included SmartGWT Ant build files.

• Install Ant 1.6.5 http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi or later. We'll assume that the ant command is in your path.
• Set the GWT_HOME environment variable to point to your GWT home directory. (supported versions are GWT 1.5.3 and later).
• Check out the SmartGWT prerequisite tools and third-party libraries:

~/smartgwt$ svn checkout http://smartgwt.googlecode.com/svn/tools/ tools

• Check out the SmartGWT source:

~/smartgwt$ svn checkout http://smartgwt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ trunk

• Switch to the directory into which you checked out the SmartGWT source. Let's assume you checked it out into ~/smartgwt/trunk. Make sure you're in that directory..

~/smartgwt$ cd ~/smartgwt/trunk

then just invoke Ant

ant

• To clean invoke

ant clean

• The SmartGWT build creates a binary distribution in the build/dist subdirectory of the source root directory. In this example, the distributions would be in ~/smartgwt/trunk/build.

Ant JUnit Issues

There is a problem, detailed at ant.apache.org, where ant cannot find the JUnit classes. The simple workaround is to either:

• Delete ant-junit.jar from the ant lib directory (for example, /usr/share/ant/lib/)
• Copy junit.jar into your ant lib directory

Ant XSLT issues

If you get an error like the one below, please remove the file {ANT_HOME}\lib\xercesImpl.jar from your Ant installation as the copy of Xerces distrbuted with certain versions on Ant causes conflicts.

[java] FATAL ERROR:  'Could not compile stylesheet'

BUILD FAILED
C:\java\ smartgwt-svn\trunk\build.xml:35: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\java\ smartgwt-svn\trunk\build.xml:15: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\java\ smartgwt-svn\trunk\doc\build.xml:63: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to complete the xslt tranform

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: listgood...@gmail.com

try to make "showcase" work in my server . I am using a XP computer , it is built properly , and upload them into my CentOS/Apache Server, the load page will stop at "please wait...", does not go further. but if replace the my built with the one from the download (the folder showcase in war), the showcase loads properly. Can anybody tell me what happen ?