Building with Ant

Question

Hi,
I try to build my application using Ant. Here is the fragment
from build.xml:
<java jar="${flex.mxmlc.jar}" fork="true">
<arg line="-file-specs ${src.dir}/${app.name}.mxml"/>
<arg line="-load-config ${flex.dist.config}"/>
</java>
When I run this, I get this error:
[java] command line: Error: default arguments may not be
interspersed with other options
[java] Use 'mxmlc -help' for information about using the
command line.
When I do not use "-load-config" option, I get following:
[java] defaults: Error: unable to open './flex-config.xml'
What is wrong?
Thanks.
.Vlad.

Answer 1

I wasn't able to reproduce the first error you got. But the
second error happens for me.
Somehow, invoking mxmlc.jar from a directory other than the
flex frameworks directory leads to an error where it's looking for
files relative to flex frameworks.
I got around this by specifying a dir to invoke the VM in.
i.e
<property name="flex.dir" value="c:\flex\sdk" />
<property name="flex.mxmlc.jar"
value="${flex.dir}/lib\mxmlc.jar" />
<java jar="${flex.mxmlc.jar}" dir="${flex.dir}/frameworks"
fork="true">
<arg line="-file-specs ${src.dir}/${app.name}.mxml"/>
</java>