Building Opencms 9.5.x from the sources
Note: this is work in progress!
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Building opencms-core
Note: This build process has been tested for Java versions 7 and 8, and Gradle versions 1.8 and 2.1.
Checkout, fix if necessary and install the Alkacon Acacia Editor
Both opencms-core ms_9_4_7 and the com.alkacon.opencms.v8.calendar module depend on the Alkacon online editor Acacia. This dependency has not yet been uploaded to the maven repository, so you have to build and install it yourself.
Checkout the version tagged opencms_9_4_7 of the acacia-editor:
pushd ~/src git clone https://github.com/alkacon/acacia-editor.git -b opencms_9_4_7 acacia-editor-opencms-9-4-7 cd acacia-editor-opencms-9-4-7
If you're using Java 8, apply the patch to work around the javadocs:
git fetch origin pull/4/head git merge FETCH_HEAD
And install the jars:
gradle install popd
Checkout the sources of the ms_9_4_7 tag1, 2, 3
git clone https://github.com/alkacon/opencms-core.git -b ms_9_4_7
After checkout, cd into the new directory
cd opencms-core
Adjust if necessary the versioning configuration
Edit the file opencms/src/org/opencms/main/version.properties or edit and execute the script create_version_properties.sh
Execute the gradle bindist task
gradle bindist
- Tip for developers: Gwt generates code for all the possible permutations of the supported languages and browsers. This compilation takes a significant part of the complete build time. During development builds you could find useful to generate the corresponding gwt code only for a language and a browser restricting the value of the properties locale and user.agent to only one value in the file opencms-core/src-gwt/org/opencms/GwtBase.gwt.xml.
Once this task is finished, you should have (among others) a distributions directory under your (in the property build_directory of the file gradle.properties) configured build directory, containing the distributable opencms-[version].zip and the deployable opencms.war.
Install the jars in your local maven repository if necessary4, 5
If you want to also build the opencms oamp, v8 or v7 modules, you also need to install in your local maven repository the corresponding jars
gradle install
Building alkacom-oamp
Checkout the sources of the 9_5_x branch6
git clone https://github.com/alkacon/alkacon-oamp.git
After checkout, cd into the new directory
cd alkacon-oamp
and checkout the corresponding revision
git checkout 98dffd71bdfe51f95d9b1a39fda3c7084c08bb5f
Patch the code
Unfortunatelly, the current sources (98dffd71tt> as for 2014-10-07) still do not compile. Until Alkacon fixes them, I have written a few more patches as workarounds:
Additionally, if you are using Gradle 2.0+, you'll need the patch:
- #30 (See also the thread OpenCms 9.0.1 ready for download)
And finally, if you are using Java 8+, you'll also need patches:
To apply the patches, fetch them and merge them into your working branch. For example, to apply patch 32:
git fetch origin pull/32/head git merge FETCH_HEAD
Execute the gradle <tt>bindist task
gradle bindist
Notes
1. Checking out the build tagged build_9_0_1 and executing gradle fails with the following message (see post OpenCms 9.0.1 ready for download):
> Could not find property 'distribution' on configuration ':compile'.
2. In the branch branch_9_0_x this issue is fixed, but there is still an ISO encoded file test/org/opencms/search/extractors/TestMsPowerPointExtraction.java that breaks the javadocs:
[...] :javadocTest /home/myuser/src/opencms-9.0.x/opencms-core/test/org/opencms/search/extractors/TestMsPowerPointExtraction.java:93: error: unmappable character for encoding UTF8 // this is "�������" ^ /home/myuser/src/opencms-9.0.x/opencms-core/test/org/opencms/search/extractors/TestMsPowerPointExtraction.java:93: error: unmappable character for encoding UTF8 // this is "�������" ^ [...] 14 errors :javadocTest FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':javadocTest'. > Javadoc generation failed.
The commit 89e10779 fixes the encoding, but it hasn't made it into branch_9_0_x. Currently (2014-10-08) it is only available in tag ms_9_4_7 and branch branch_9_5_x.
3. For the sake of stability, I favor tagged versions over branches, that is tag ms_9_4_7 over branch branch_9_5_x. (There is unfortunately no tags for the branch_9_5 branch yet.)
4. The current javadocs are broken and when using Java 8+, gradle fails with the following message:
[...] 100 errors 100 warnings :javadoc FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':javadoc'. [...]
I have written a pull-request to work around this issue: https://github.com/alkacon/opencms-core/pull/278. Please note that this pull is for the branch branch_9_5_x. Be warned that merging it into a branch based upon the tag ms_9_4_7 will also merge all the changes between commits ms_9_4_7..branch_9_5_x.
That is, if you want to pull the whole changes:
git fetch origin pull/278/head git merge FETCH_HEAD
If you only want the changes from this patch:
git fetch origin pull/278/head git cherry-pick origin/branch_9_5_x..FETCH_HEAD
5. You need to match the version of the generated opencms-core artifacts to the version of the alkacon-oamp dependencies. Since commit 89e10779 (from 2014-04.02, already in branch_9_5_x), the property version.number in the file opencms-core/src/org/opencms/main/version.properties defines the versions of the opencms-core artifacts. The property opencms_version of the file alkacon-oamp/gradle.properties declares the version of the dependencies:
opencms-core/src/org/opencms/main/version.properties | alkacon-oamp/gradle.properties |
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# Static version information file # # You should set this to something meaningful before you build. version.number=9.5.x version.id=Manual build build.number=(not set) build.date=(not set) nicename.build.number=Build Number nicename.build.date=Build Date # This has no nice name on purpose (for test cases) build.info=Static version file |
build_directory=../../BuildOAMP opencms_version=9.5.x java_target_version=1.6 max_heap_size=1024m # all available modules modules_oamp_all=\ com.alkacon.opencms.commons,\ com.alkacon.opencms.calendar,\ com.alkacon.opencms.documentcenter,\ [...] |
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