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Compiling Flex Applications In Eclipse

Posted At : April 24, 2007 9:05 AM | Posted By : todd sharp
Related Categories: Flex

A few folks have commented on my entry about Setting up Eclipse for Flex 2 asking how to compile a Flex application from within Eclipse (without Flex Builder). I'd like to post a complete step-by-step guide on how to do so but the truth is it's already been done - so I'll just link to it here. For compiling I personally use Flex2Ant which is a very cool way to do this. The guide at Flex2Ant.org is very detailed and takes you through installing the jar file, creating a build.xml file and running the Ant task that compiles the SWF. I've found this method to work pretty flawlessly. There is a bit of extra work involved when deploying the project (you'll likely want to use one of the HTML wrappers that ship with the Flex 2 SDK). But then again you can't beat the price ($0.00).

Oh yeah - there's also a few options up at Labs for compiling. As I said above though, Flex2Ant works well for me so I really never felt the need to look into those solutions. Post a comment if you use them - or something else - to compile your SWFs.

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Todd, glad to hear you like flex2ant. If you have any suggestions for improving flex2ant then please let know by sending a email to info {at} flex2ant [.] org.
I've been thinking about including Apollo functionality for completeness. I might do an update on the website in the next month or so depending on the amount of work necessary.

# Posted By Luke | 4/25/07 7:51 PM

flex compiler shell seems to increase builds by 50% i dont know if this applies with ant taks inside eclipse but i would be interested to see some real implementations in eclipse with that and some benchmark tests... dam thing i am to much of an dumb dude to do myself.. mama why?

# Posted By kzm | 6/27/07 10:31 AM

Thanks for sharing this, it works great!

# Posted By martha flag | 7/23/07 2:08 PM

I'm new to flex/eclipse. I would like to do all flex development using eclipse. I've tried following the blog instructions to no avail. Do I need to buy flex builder in order for this to work? Someone help before I have no hair left!!

# Posted By matt | 1/4/08 6:39 PM

I have installed eclipse 3.4 and I have installed all the zip folders as mentioned in the post "emf-sdo-xsd-SDK-2.2.2.zip, GEF-SDK-3.2.2.zip, JEM-SDK-1.2.3_jem.zip, wtp-wst-R-1.5.3.zip ", could not able to find the xml catalog and I am was unable to find mxml.xsd, since I am using flex_sdk_3. Please email me how to setup flex with eclipse, since we want to work out this without flex builder.

Thanks for your help and support.

# Posted By Stalin Selvam | 7/21/08 8:18 AM

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