Setup on Macintosh
The following instructions have been tested on OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Update OS X
Be sure you've run Software Update and installed all pending updates befrore continuing. This ensures that you have the latest Java binaries.
Install Ant 1.7.0
Create a bin directory inside your home directory.
Download the Apache Ant Project's archived release of Ant 1.7.0 here and unzip it. Put the apache-ant-1.7.0 folder that's inside the ZIP in the newly created bin folder. Make sure that Ant's bin folder is at ~/bin/apache-ant-1.7.0/bin.
(Optional) Install Ant 1.6.2
If you intend to build an older branch (e.g. branches/3.0.x), you need Ant 1.6.2.
Create a bin directory inside your home directory.
Download the Apache Ant Project's archived release of Ant 1.6.2 here and unzip it. Put the apache-ant-1.6.2 folder that's inside the ZIP in the newly created bin folder. Make sure that Ant's bin folder is at ~/bin/apache-ant-1.6.2/bin.
Configure Flash Player
mm.cfg
Download mm.cfg into your home directory. This file specifies
If your system already has an mm.cfg file, paste these two lines into it.
FlashPlayerTrust
Open the directory ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security. If it doesn't already contain a directory named FlashPlayerTrust, create one. Download FlexSDK.cfg into FlashPlayerTrust.
This file simply contains
so that SWFs anywhere on your system are trusted to load local content.
Note: If you are getting "Security Sandbox Violation" errors (e.g. when running ant checkintests), you may need to use more specific directories than "/", e.g. "/Users/gordon/". You may put one on each line.
Test your setup
To test your setup, launch Terminal, change your working directory to the trunk of the Flex SDK, and run its setup.sh script:
Execute
and confirm that Java 1.5.0_13 is being found (you may have a revisions other than 13).
Execute
and confirm that Ant 1.7.0 is being found.
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