Flex compc

For those that do not know what compc is, it is a flex component compiler, it generates a .swc file that can be used as a library in your Flex application.

I was doing some blog reading today and came across someone talking about ANT and Flex specifically compc. I have had my own issues with the Flex Ant tasks in the past one of them is the way compc makes you list out the files. I thought this was a bit strange that I could not just pass in a path to the source files and have it pick them up. So after some surfing around and thinking I was able to come up with this. It looks at the directory you provide and includes/excludes any files you would like in property. This property is used as an input to the include-classes attribute of the compc command.

 

   1: <target name="_resolve-class-path" depends="clean">

   2: <path id="list_1">

   3:         <fileset dir="${flex-src.dir}">

   4:             <include name="**/**"/>

   5:             <exclude name="**/**.bak"/>

   6:         </fileset>

   7:     </path>

   8:     <pathconvert property="project_classes_property" pathsep=" " dirsep="." refid="list_1">

   9:         <map from="${basedir}\src\" to=""/>

  10:         <mapper>

  11:             <chainedmapper>

  12:                 <globmapper from="*.as" to="*"/>

  13:             </chainedmapper>

  14:             <chainedmapper>

  15:                 <globmapper from="*.mxml" to="*"/>

  16:             </chainedmapper>

  17:         </mapper>

  18:     </pathconvert>

  19: </target>

and my compc looks like this now

<compc output="${basedir}/util.swc" include-classes="${project_classes_property}">

I can not take full credit it for it but thought I would pass it along to others.