Refactoring JavaFX Builds & Sources (original) (raw)

Scott Palmer swpalmer at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 09:17:58 PDT 2012

On 2012-10-19, at 11:00 AM, Anthony Petrov <anthony.petrov at oracle.com> wrote:

On 10/19/2012 6:37 PM, Danno Ferrin wrote:

What would be nice is if the snapshot builds posted the intermediaries to a public facing repository so that installing the naitve build chain ins not a requirement. IIRC you need a non-free-as-in-beer VisualC++ compiler to spit out windows builds. (I may be wrong as my knowledge is dated). JDK can be built using a free VS 2010 Express edition. I think FX can be built with this free compiler as well. -- best regards, Anthony

+1 to using VS express edition. Other projects attempt to use things like MinGW or some windows-ish variation of GCC. They are all horrible on Windows.

+1 to Gradle as well. Maven works okay for simple things, but anything requiring complexity leads you to pull your hair out. Maven is by-design nearly unconfigurable and awkward to tweak. Gradle is much easier to deal with when you need to configure a custom build experience. From a command-line perspective it is the clear winner. Hopefully IDE support will catch up.

Our current JavaFX-based product us using Gradle to drive builds that are composed of Ant, Maven, Make, and Visual Studio projects along with invoking some custom build tools. We have a combination of Java Swing, JavaFX, and native bits on Windows, Mac and Linux. Managing it all can be "interesting" at times.

Scott

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