Compilation of adobe air app that uses ANE fails while using the flex ant tasks.

Question

The resolution seems to be a hack - which when you rename .ane files to .swc, it works.
I came across this workaround here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11112705/using-ant-mxmlc-task-with-native-extension?rq= 1
<mxmlc file="${app.root}/app.as" 
               output="${output.dir}/app.swf"
               allow-source-path-overlap="true"
               debug="false"
               actionscript-file-encoding="UTF-8"
               swf-version="19" >
            <load-config filename="${framework.root}/air-config.xml"/>
            <source-path path-element="${framework.root}"/>
            <source-path path-element="src"/>
            <source-path path-element="other"/>
            <compiler.library-path dir="libs" append="true">
                <include name="**/*.swc"/>
            </compiler.library-path>
            <!-- THIS DOES NOT WORK -->
            <compiler.external-library-path dir="nativeExtension" append="true">
                <include name="**/*.ane"/>
            </compiler.external-library-path>
        </mxmlc>
However, if I rename all the .ane files in the nativeExtension directory to .swc the following change works..
            <!-- THIS WORKS -->
            <compiler.external-library-path dir="nativeExtension" append="true">
                <include name="**/*.swc"/>
            </compiler.external-library-path>
Has this issue been addressed?
I'm using the following:
- Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler (version 3.7) for Mac OS X
- ActionScript Compiler 2.0
- Apache Ant wrapper located in "AIRSDK_Compiler/ant/lib/flexTasks.jar"
Let me know if any other details will be helpful.

Answer 1

I'm using something like this in my build.xml (inapp.purchase.flash.swc is the flash wrapper for the ANE):
            <external-library-path dir="${basedir}/extensions/inapp.purchase/inapp.purchase.flash/bin" append="true">
                <include name="inapp.purchase.flash.swc" />
            </external-library-path>
I don't think you need ANE when building swf component of your app. ANE is only required for packaging. By linking with external inapp.purchase.flash.swc you're just telling action script compiler that above symbols will be defined later (in ANE).