This version of Flex is officially built in Cygwin on Windows XP Pro SP2. It requires the following software that is not under source control: J2SDK 1.5.0_13 (see http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_13/index.html) Ant 1.7.0 (see http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/) The following environment variables must be set: JAVA_HOME ANT_HOME The PATH must include bin directory of Flex SDK bin directory of Ant bin directory of Java For testing, the Flash Player's mm.cfg file must have the following entries ErrorReportingEnable=1 TraceOutputFileEnable=1 and a FlashPlayerTrust file must allow local SWFs to access local files. To build and test the SDK, execute ant main checkintests