Compile AIR application with Ant (WindowedApplication could not be found)

Question

I'm trying to compile my AIR application with Ant, using the mxmlc Ant Task. It seems to compile fine, and I get a .swf, but when I try to run it with ADL, I get the message "Class mx.core::WindowedApplication could not be found." It looks like the AIR libraries aren't being included properly.
Here's my mxmlc task:
Class mx.core::WindowedApplication could not be found.
<mxmlc
     file="${MAIN_MXML}"
     output="${DEPLOY_DIR}/MyApp.swf"
     compatibility-version="3"
     locale="en_US"
     static-rsls="true"
     debug="${DEBUG_FLAG}"
     optimize="true"
     link-report="${DEPLOY_DIR}/report.xml"
     configname="air">
     <load-config filename="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/air-config.xml" />
     <library-path dir="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/libs" append="true">
          <include name="*.swc" />
     </library-path>
     <library-path dir="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/libs/air" append="true">
          <include name="*.swc" />
     </library-path>
     <library-path dir="${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/locale" append="true">
          <include name="{locale}" />
     </library-path>
     <source-path path-element="${SRC_DIR}" />
</mxmlc>
Any idea why this is happening? I've tried not including the load-config section and not including the library paths, but it's always the same result - it can't find WindowedApplication.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi, Guys!
I ran into the same problem when i tried to write an ant-script to compile the asDocs for my project.
After reading shades post i added the air-config (This resolved the WindowApplication couldn't be found error, because it adds all the air libs i guess)
but lead to the problem that the flex vector-class wasn't found. As Vector is flashplayer 10.0.0 i also
used the target-player parameter (This fixed that nicely).
But now i got the problem that i get lots of this error msgs: DepartmentItemRendererClass.as(11):
Error: The private attribute may be used only on class property definitions.
I guess the problem now is that ant doesn't understand that the AS-Classes producing that errors are not used as
standalone-classes. To divide my mxml and AS-Code i import external AS-Classes to my MXML
like that <mx:Script source="ascodeClass.as" />
Is there a solution allowing me to use this pattern and still compile my asDoc with ant?
It confuses me a little, because Ant-Scripts worked to compile the project.
Thanks in advance!
Florian
My Ant-Script producing that error:
<project name="Red bull BPT 2.0: Generate ASDoc" basedir=".">
    <description>
       Creates the ASDoc for Red Bull BPT 2.0
    </description>
    <property file="FlexbuilderASDocAntTask.properties" />
    <taskdef resource="flexTasks.tasks" classpath="${FLEX_HOME}/ant/lib/flexTasks.jar" />
    <target name="cleanAndCreateASDoc"
            depends="cleanASDoc, compileASDoc"
            description="Cleans and creates Actionscript-Documentation"
            />
        <!-- Delete the existing output folder and files and then regenerate the output folder -->
            <target name="cleanASDoc">
                <echo>Deleting ASDoc Directory...</echo>
                    <!--Delete the folder specified for the Asdoc.dir variable-->
                    <delete dir="${Asdoc.dir}" failOnError="false" includeEmptyDirs="true" />
                    <echo>Deleted ASDoc Directory</echo>
                    <echo>Creating ASDoc Directory...</echo>
                    <!--Creates the folder specified for the Asdoc.dir variable-->
                    <mkdir dir="${Asdoc.dir}" />
                <echo>Created ASDoc Directory</echo>
            </target>
        <!-- Run the ASDoc executable and generate the ASDocs to the new output folder -->
            <target name="compileASDoc">
                <echo>ASDoc Compiling...</echo>
                    <exec executable="${AsDocs.executable}" failonerror="true">
                    <!--THIS SEEMS TO SOLVE THE WINDOWEDAPPLICATION AND FOLLOWING VECTOR ERROR -->   
                        <arg line="-load-config ${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks/air-config.xml" />
                        <arg line="-target-player 10.0.0" />
                    <!--THIS SEEMS TO SOLVE THE WINDOWEDAPPLICATION AND FOLLOWING VECTOR ERROR -->
                    <!--Main title for the top of all ASDoc pages-->
                        <arg line="-main-title '${Main.title}'" />
                    <!--Prefix Title of the window-->
                        <arg line="-window-title '${Window.title}'" />
                    <!--Defines the output directory for the ASDoc-Files-->
                        <arg line="-output '${Asdoc.dir}'" />
                    <!--Footer added to each ASDoc page-->
                        <arg line="-footer '${Footer.text}'" />
                    <!--Adding the source folders the ASDoc should be created from (Start)-->
                        <arg line="-doc-sources '${ModuleBaseDir}/source'" />
                    <!--Adding the source folders the ASDoc should be created from (End)-->
                    <!--Adding the folders for external Libraries needed to compile the application(Start)-->
                        <arg line="-external-library-path '${ModuleBaseDir}/libs'" />
                    <!--Adding the folders for external Libraries needed to compile the application(End)-->
                    </exec>
                <echo>ASDoc Compile Complete!</echo>
    </target>
</project>