Getting Flex 4.0 up and running on Ubuntu

I came across a blog entry today from Mike Morearty about the flex 4 source tree.

It also mentioned the swfdump tool which looked interesting

I downloaded it and went to the bin directory to try swddump but it didn't work straight away complaining about a missing jar file.

I thought this would mean a lot of pain to get it all compiling but I was very surprised. Here were the steps to get it working on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

Step 1

Get the code from the repository

This will check out the code to a directory called flex4 under your current directory. I'm assuming you have Subversion installed but if you don't you'll need to run this first.

Get the tools to compile flex

That wasn't hard now was it?

Compile

Go into the correct directory and call "ant" which will use the build.xml to build it all.

Some couple of minutes later you should get the following message

Now you have a build of Flex4. Next step is to figure out how to configure Flex Builder to use the new compiler.

NOTE: This is not a finished version of Flex4 yet. Just the work in progress.

Cheers, Mark