15 Responses to “First Windows XP tests”

1. saban says:

   December 20, 2007 at 12:01 pm

   Hi,

   it is strange but I’ve trusted the Java Update Manager in Windows and installed the new JRE 6.0. Now Eclipse starts with strange Error-Messages and iFac throw the following exception:

   Error loading: C:\Programme\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\client\jvm.dll

   Anybody there who knows how to configure Java in WinXP?

   Best regard
   SABAN
2. fr1n63 says:

   January 20, 2008 at 6:08 pm

   I’m having issues with getting this running on XP, it all appears to be running through ok, and then no swf is created at the end? fcsh tasks are being created, compile looks like it is happening ok. Are there some settings I should have to allow iFac to write files?

   Cheers,

   Martin
3. Saban Ünlü - netTrek says:

   January 20, 2008 at 10:18 pm

   hi,

   iFac is ‘just’ a socket plugin. Therefor it must be a build file(s) issues.
   Please upload your build.xml (&.properties) on youre server.
   And post a download link. Maybe we could find the problem.

   Regards
   Saban
4. fr1n63 says:

   January 21, 2008 at 12:47 am

   Thanks, it’s almost as if mxmlc is never being called, or not failing when it can’t find it. I’ve changed the paths to my Flex SDK in my build files, my sdk structure seem to be different from yours (sdk3 beta), but it doesn’t ask for a path to mxmlc anywhere?

   Files are here – http://www.fr1n63.com/ifac.zip

   Cheers,
   Martin
5. saban says:

   January 21, 2008 at 9:15 am

   Hi Martin,

   1. Problem )
   There are empty spaces in your sdk properties! ( see also: http://ifac-plugin.com/?p=19#comments # point 1 ).

   2. Problem )
   You could not start the Flash Player with the open command on Win OS
   ( see also: http://ifac-plugin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/build2.xml # Win Sample )

   3. Problem )
   A DocClass-Name should start with upper case ( HelloAway.as )

   I’ve create a Project with your profile and everything runs very well!
   SABAN
6. fr1n63 says:

   January 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   Cheers,

   I’ll have a crack at it tonight – thanks for your help!

   Martin
7. fr1n63 says:

   January 22, 2008 at 1:14 am

   OK, I got it working, but I have 2 issues – the launch element couldn’t find the swf – I used an alternate launch task to get round that. But the main issue is speed, I was getting launch times of 86 seconds as a fresh build, and then 56 seconds with nothing changed.

   It’s a small project and the fdt launcher does it in 8 and 1 second respectively.

   Any clues?
8. saban says:

   January 22, 2008 at 10:03 am

   That’s strange!

   A Friend of me hast the same problem. The reason for this behavior could only be a untypical Java or XP installation because on many other systems it works perfectly immediately!

   And iFac works very economical. It creates a socket server and delegates fcsh commands and responses. Therefor it could not be a iFac problem excepting iFac could not create a fast socket with the working system settings.

   We’re searching for a solution of this issues. But it is hard to reproduce it because we are Mac users and with Mac OS everything works perfect.

   Did you’ve saw other comments like this: http://ifac-plugin.com/?p=71
   Maybe it could help you – please notice us if you find a way to speed up iFac.

   Sorry and best regards
   SABAN
9. fr1n63 says:

   January 22, 2008 at 1:27 pm

   I had seen that comment, but I get none of those errors. I have XP Prof, Eclipse Europa and Java 6 – I’ve tried running the ant task in the same JRE as the workspace, and also in a separate JRE. Just had a quick search on port 50000, and I think it may be used by BitTorrent, so there may be some kind of crossover?

   Will keep you posted if I get it running any better… Thanks for your help.
10. Neill says:

    February 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Hi, I was having the same problem on one PC, and it worked ok on another. The difference was FLEX_HOME wasn’t set in String Substitution. I hadn’t followed the setup instructions very carefully on the demo PC. Once I set FLEX_HOME it worked ok. It wasn’t necessary to actually add the env to the launch config, just have it set in the workspace.

    Thanks for providing the discussion forum!
11. Neill says:

    February 16, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Now I’m seeing the issue running the task in a multi-module Maven project, but not if running the build from the WebApp module. It works ok in multi-module mode from another PC, same source repository.
12. jszczepankiewicz says:

    April 3, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Hi,
    I have the similar problems in my environment the error was caused by missing file “msvcr71.dll”, which is required by fcsh.exe. This is very stupid error by Adobe, because they may put this file into the bin folder of the sdk and the problem will be solved. You may check if this is the reason of the problem by trying to run fcsh.exe from the command line. If you will fail (windows will show you the alert about missing msvcr71.dll then download it from the www (use google) and put into windows/system32.
13. jszczepankiewicz says:

    April 3, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    (following my previous comment)
    and you need to restart flex builder to check the solution
14. Nancee Koscielak says:

    April 27, 2009 at 11:44 am

    There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
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