Adding Ant to Flex Builder 3
I wanted to use Cairngen in a recent project and quickly noticed that the standalone version of Flex Builder 3 does not have Ant support available by default. Getting it set-up is pretty easy though:
- In Flex Builder, Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
- Select "Search for new features to install" and click Next
- Pick "The Eclipse Project Updates" and click Finish
- Expand "The Eclipse Project Updates" and "Eclipse 3.3.2"
- Select "Eclipse Java Development Tools 3.3.2..." and click "Finish"
- When prompted, select "Install All"
- Restart Flex Builder
When Flex Builder starts up again, you will have Ant support available (e.g. any build.xml files will have a little ant on the icon). You can also verify by selecting Window -> Other Views... and checked if an Ant directory exists.