BuildOpenCmsFromSource

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The following steps show how to build opencms from scratch just using ant.

1 Prerequisites
2 Folder structure
3 Modifications in build.xml
4 Required libs
5 Building

[edit] Prerequisites

JDK 5
Ant 1.6.x or later, Installation directory referred to as %ANT_HOME%

[edit] Folder structure

First download the source distribution of your choice from the OpenCms website or check it out from cvs. Create a new folder (referred to as %BUILD_ROOT%) and another folder in it (referred to as %SOURCE_ROOT%) and unzip the downloaded sources in it (the build process will create folders above the %SOURCE_ROOT% folder).

[edit] Modifications in build.xml

Change to %SOURCE_ROOT% and edit the file build.xml

Navigate to the line beginning with

<property name="opencms.input.externlibs"

and change it to

<property name="opencms.input.externlibs" location="${opencms.input.webinf}/lib" />

This way you can put the external jars required in the same dir as the other libs.

[edit] Required libs

Download the oracle driver classes (ojdbc14.jar) from here: [1] (need to sign in) and place it in %SOURCE_ROOT%/webapp/WEB-INF/lib.

Read the file src-components/ant-opencms-config.txt and copy the libs mentioned there from %SOURCE_ROOT%/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/ to %ANT_HOME%/lib (Note: this step doesn't seem to be necessary for OpenCms 7.x)