Question

Does anyone know of a way to use the mxmlc Flex Ant task with a user-defined list of source or library paths?

The user should be able to define an arbitrary list of source and/or library (.swc) paths in an Ant properties file and the build file can use these values in the mxmlc task.

Are there any tricks (maybe use filtering/string replacing) to get this working?

Answer 1

Don’t know if this helps, but you can include an external XML in your Ant build file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="test" default="test" basedir=".">

  <target name="setup">
    ...
  </target>

  <import file="./common.xml" />

</project>

I ran across your question, looking for a way to define the library (and source path) definitions in external files. Looping through a list of defined properties seems somewhat problematic to me, since you would possibly have to define a list of library paths as well as sub-lists of files in each defined path in the list.

Seems that including external files defining the library and various source paths might be a better and just as extensible way to go.