If you want a prebuilt SDK grab the gwt-0.0.0.zip file in the root of the repo. It was built without Elemental support.
See here for inclusions from the 2.6.1 patch: https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/+/b646c3a4046e8ae3e1758631f27c252614f6b73a
And in addtion to the changes from the above patch the following were modified:
OS X Build Notes
svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tools/ tools
git clone https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt release/2.7
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/libexec/java_home"
export GWT_TOOLS="/repos/gwt-tools"
../apache-ant-1.9.6/bin/ant
Windows Build Notes
# My GWT 2.7 Source directory looks like the following
# /GWT2.7
# /GWT2.7/apache-ant-1.9.4
# /GWT2.7/GWT-2.7
# /GWT2.7/tools
# /GWT2.7/GWT-2.7 is the release/2.7 tag
# git and svn need to be in path
svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tools/ tools
git clone https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt release/2.7
# point to the tools svn checkout repo
$env:GWT_TOOLS = "C:\Users\[USER]\Documents\GitHub\GWT2.7\tools"
$env:JAVA_HOME = "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_31"
cd ".\GWT-2.7"
# from GWT-2.7 Directory
..\apache-ant-1.9.4\bin\ant [clean]
GWT is the official open source project for GWT releases 2.5 and onwards.
In this document you have some quick instructions to build the SDK from source code and to run its tests.
For a more detailed documentation visit our web site. If you are interested in contributing with the project, please read the Making GWT better section.
In order to build GWT, java
and ant
are required in your system.
Optional: if you want to compile elemental you need
python
and g++
installed.
You need the gwt-tools
checked out and up-to-date, and it will be placed
by default at ../tools
. You can override the default
location using the GWT_TOOLS environment variable or passing -Dgwt.tools=
argument to ant.
Note: that you need svn
to checkout gwt-tools
To create the SDK distribution files run:
$ ant clean elemental dist-dev
or if you don't have python
and g++
just run
$ ant clean dist-dev
Then you will get all .jar
files in the folder build/lib
and
the redistributable file will be: build/dist/gwt-0.0.0.zip
if you want to specify a different version number run:
$ ant elemental clean dist-dev -Dgwt.version=x.x.x
To compile everything including examples you have to run
$ ant clean elemental dist
In GWT we have some conventions so as all code written by contributors look similar being easier to review.
After you make any modification, run this command to compile everything including tests, to check APIs, and to verify code style. It shouldn't take longer than 3-4 minutes.
$ ant compile.tests apicheck checkstyle -Dprecompile.disable=true
Previously to run any test you have to set some environment variables to guarantee that they are run in the same conditions for all developers.
In a Unix like platform you can use the export
command:
$ export TZ=America/Los_Angeles ANT_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
But in Windows™ you have to set the time-zone in your control panel, and
the environment variables using the command set
.
Finally you can run all test suites with the following command, but be prepared because it could take hours, and probably it would fail because of timeouts, etc.
$ ant test
Thus, you might want to run only certain tests so as you can focus on checking the modifications you are working on.
GWT build scripts use specific ant tasks and a bunch of system properties listed in the following table to specify which tests to run and how.
For instance to run the task test
in the module user
you
have to change to the user
folder and run ant
with the task
as argument, adding any other property with the -D
flag:
$ ( cd user && ant test -Dtest.emma.htmlunit.disable=true ; cd .. )
Module | Task | Property to skip |
---|---|---|
dev | test | test.dev.disable |
codeserver | test | test.codeserver.disable |
user | test | test.user.disable |
user | test.nongwt | test.nongwt.disable |
user | test.dev.htmlunit | test.dev.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.web.htmlunit | test.web.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.draft.htmlunit | test.draft.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.nometa.htmlunit | test.nometa.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.emma.htmlunit | test.emma.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.coverage.htmlunit | test.coverage.htmlunit.disable |
user | test.dev.selenium | test.dev.selenium.disable |
user | test.web.selenium | test.web.selenium.disable |
user | test.draft.selenium | test.draft.selenium.disable |
user | test.nometa.selenium | test.nometa.selenium.disable |
user | test.emma.selenium | test.emma.selenium.disable |
requestfactory | test | |
elemental | test | |
elemental | test.nongwt | |
elemental | test.dev.htmlunit | |
elemental | test.web.htmlunit | |
tools | test |
Additionally you can utilize some variables to filter which test to run in each task:
Module | Task | Properties | Default |
---|---|---|---|
dev/core | test | gwt.junit.testcase.dev.core.includes | **/com/google/**/*Test.class |
gwt.junit.testcase.dev.core.excludes | |||
user | test | gwt.junit.testcase.includes | **/*Suite.class |
user | test.nongwt | gwt.nongwt.testcase.includes | **/*JreSuite.class |
gwt.nongwt.testcase.excludes | |||
user | test.web. test.draft. test.nometa.* | gwt.junit.testcase.web.includes | **/*Suite.class |
gwt.junit.testcase.web.excludes | **/*JsInteropSuite.class,**/*JreSuite.class,***/OptimizedOnly* |
||
user | test.dev. test.emma. | gwt.junit.testcase.dev.includes | **/*Suite.class |
gwt.junit.testcase.dev.excludes | **/*JsInteropSuite.class,**/*JreSuite.class,***/OptimizedOnly* |
Run all tests in dev
$ ( cd dev && ant test ; cd .. )
Note: that the last `cd ..' is only needed in Windows.
There is another option to do the same but without changing to the module folder. We have to specify the module as the ant task, and the task as a target argument.
$ ant dev -Dtarget=test
Run all tests in codeserver
$ ( cd dev/codeserver && ant test )
or
$ ant codeserver -Dtarget=test -Dtest.dev.disable=true
Note: that we disable dev tests because code server depends on dev and we don`t want to run its tests.
Run all tests in elemental:
$ ( cd elemental && ant test.nongwt )
or
$ ant elemental -Dtarget=test -Dtest.dev.disable=true -Dtest.user.disable=true
Note: that we have to disable dev and user tests because elemental depends on both.
Run all tests in tools
$ ant tools -Dtarget=test -Dtest.dev.disable=true -Dtest.user.disable=true
Run only the JsniRefTest in dev
$ ant dev -Dtarget=test \
-Dgwt.junit.testcase.dev.core.includes="**/JsniRefTest.class"
Run a couple of tests in dev
$ ant dev -Dtarget=test \
-Dgwt.junit.testcase.dev.core.includes="**/JsniRefTest.class,**/JsParserTest.class"
Note: that you have to use regular expressions separated by comma to select the test classes to execute.
Run all Jre tests in user, they should take not longer than 3min. We have two ways to run them. Although the second case is more complex it is here to know how disable properties work.
$ ( cd user && ant test.nongwt )
or
$ ant user -Dtarget=test -Dtest.dev.disable=true \
-Dtest.dev.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.web.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.coverage.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.dev.selenium.disable=true \
-Dtest.draft.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.draft.selenium.disable=true \
-Dtest.emma.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.emma.selenium.disable=true \
-Dtest.nometa.htmlunit.disable=true \
-Dtest.nometa.selenium.disable=true \
-Dtest.web.selenium.disable=true
Note: that we have to set all disable variables but test.nongwt.disable
Run certain Jre tests in the user module.
$ ( cd user && ant test.nongwt -Dgwt.nongwt.testcase.includes="**/I18NJreSuite.class" )
Run all GWT tests in user using htmlunit in dev mode.
$ ( cd user && ant test.dev.htmlunit )