[SOLVED] How to compile a SWC file with mulitple namespaces

How to compile a SWC file with mulitple namespaces

I'm trying to compile an SWC file from a list of given ActionScript classes. I'm using the compc compiler. The problem is that there are so many classes grouped into multiple namespaces that I am finding it very tedious to specify each individual class to be included in the SWC. Is there any easier way of doing this like just simply specifying a root directory of these classes?

At the moment I have something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<flex-config xmlns="http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex-config">
  <output>C:\SomeFolder\testSWC.swc</output>
  <compiler>
    <source-path>.</source-path>
  </compiler>
  <include-classes>
    <class>SomeNamespaceOne.One</class>
    <class>SomeNamespaceOne.Two</class>
    <class>SomeNamespaceOne.Three</class>
    <class>SomeNamespaceOne.Four</class>
    ...
    <class>SomeNamespaceFifty.One</class>
  </include-classes>
</flex-config>

But I want something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<flex-config xmlns="http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex-config">
  <output>C:\SomeFolder\testSWC.swc</output>
  <compiler>
    <source-path>. </source-path>
  </compiler>
  <include-classes>
    <class>SomeRootDirectoryOfClassesToCompile</class>
  </include-classes>
</flex-config>

Is this possible?

Solution

We wanted something similar, in "Ant".

I am assuming you are not using Flex Builder. In that case, I will definitely recommend using Ant and Flex Ant tasks available from Adobe. Even when you use Ant, its not easy doing what you want to do, so I am including our code below.

Following is our code. I don't remember where I got the idea from, so cannot thank the source for it :)

        <pathconvert property="XXX.classes" pathsep=" ">

        <fileset dir="${basedir}/XXX/src">
            <include name="**/*.as"/>
            <include name="**/*.mxml"/>
        </fileset>

        <compositemapper>
            <packagemapper from="${basedir}\XXX\src\*.as" to="*"/>
            <packagemapper from="${basedir}/XXX/src/*.as" to="*"/>
            <packagemapper from="${basedir}\XXX\src\*.mxml" to="*"/>
            <packagemapper from="${basedir}/XXX/src/*.mxml" to="*"/>
        </compositemapper>

    </pathconvert>

    <compc optimize="true" debug="false"
    include-classes="${XXX.classes}" output="${BUILD_FOLDER}/XXX.swc">
            </compc>