Comments on: How to build FlowPlayer from source

By: T

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:20:08 +0000

These instructions are working 12/09. Grab latest files from SVN. Works better than trying to use files from src zip files.
http://flowplayer.org/documentation/developer/development-environment.html

(Note on this tutorial, you'll need to check out the extra control, content, etc, subfolders from SVN as well)

By: Roland Mai

Roland Mai — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:35:17 +0000

Build succeeded. Thanks. I had to download asunit and flowplayer.devkit but there was no problem.

By: tan123

tan123 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:13:11 +0000

Could you guide me build FlowPlayer 3.0.0 from source?

I use cygwin, java 6, apache ant 1.7.0 and Flex SDK 3 on Window

I encountered these errors, one can point me in the right direction?

$ant
Buildfile: build.xml

check-uptodate:
[echo] main up-to-date: ${uptodate.main}
[echo] main up-to-date: ${uptodate.commercial}
[echo] lib up-to-date: ${uptodate.lib}

build-lib:

prepare:

compile-lib:
[exec] Loading configuration file C:\flowplayer\flex_sdk_3\frameworks\flexconfig.xml
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\flowplayer\bild
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\flowplayer.devkit

plugins:
[subant] No sub-builds to iterate on

build:

prepare:

compile:
[echo] Building binary flowplayer.swf
[exec] command line: Error: configuration variable 'compiler.define' expected 2 argument(s), got 1
[exec] Adobe Compc (Flex Component Compiler)
[exec]
[exec] Use 'mxmlc -help' for information about using the command line.
[exec] Result: 1

BUILD FAILED
C:\flowplayer\build.xml:64: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\flowplayer\build.xml:78: Warning: Could not find file C:\flowplayer\build\flowplayer.swf to copy.

Total time: 25 second

Thanks for all the help!

By: greg

greg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:05:16 +0000

Answering "deb" at February 19th, 2008 at 4:17 am:

this function is a sample javascript callback, it should be in your webpage, not in Flowplayer

By: 2fkd » Blog Archive » Building FlowPlayer from Source on Mac OS X

2fkd » Blog Archive » Building FlowPlayer from Source on Mac OS X — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:19:28 +0000

[...] This is tangential, but I'm noting it because I'm publishing this simply because I figured it out and there isn't a lot of good information out there to this effect. These instructions are based on a somewhat outdated post I found that didn't make an OS-distinction and turned out not to work as written on Macs. [...]

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:17:03 +0000

Getting an error aroung "alert" for the function function fpCuePoint(data)
{
alert(data);
}
while building. Could you please let me know the reason?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:04:56 +0000

Very good instruction. I tried to digg it, but the site tells me "topic is invalid". Ain't getting it. Maybe I just can't dig a thing.

On the subject of swfmill version, the readme file from flowplayer said the same thing, that swfmill 0.2.12 does not work. But I am NOT able to build it at all with swfmill 0.2.11, but only with 0.2.12; with the rest following exactly as above. I am wondering if it has to do with libxlt version. Here are mine:

libxslt.i386 1.1.21-1.fc6 installed
libxslt-devel.i386 1.1.21-1.fc6 installed

By: Federico

Federico — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:04:31 +0000

As of june 2007, swfmill has released 0.2.12 which will lead to a successfull build but to a broken swf as well. Stick to swfmill 0.2.11.

By: Anssi

Anssi — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:13:41 +0000

This is really good information.

Note that currently the CVS HEAD branch contains sources that are being ported to ActionScript 3.0. This effort is currently in progress and you need different tools for building it.

The sources that correspond to the insctructions presented here must be checked out from fixes_1_11 branch:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@flowplayer.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/flowplayer co -r fixes_1_11 -P flowplayer

// Anssi