Building git repo of jQuery-UI on windows os

[dalibor983]

I tried to build jQuery-UI on windows with cygwin and apache-ant and I got this error:

Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "build\minify-js.sh": CreateProcess error=193, %1 is not a valid Win32 application

In build.xml I found this:

<apply executable="build/minify-js.sh">
  <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui" includes="**.js" />
  <srcfile />
  <mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/*.min.js" />
  <targetfile/>
</apply>

On google I found that running shell script with ant should be colled with "sh", "bash" or "cmd" command so I changed build.xml script like this:

<apply executable="bash">
  <arg line="-c build/minify-js.sh" />
  <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui" includes="**.js" />
  <srcfile />
  <mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/*.min.js" />
  <targetfile/>
</apply>

but the commad that this ant script generate is:

bash -c build/minify-js.sh <sourcefile> <targetfile>

So "bash" run "build/minify-js.sh" but ignore <sourcefile> and <targetfile>. The correct command would be:

bash -c "build/minify-js.sh <sourcefile> <targetfile>"

but I don't know how to achieve this with "apply" ant task.

Is there any way to build this repo on widnows? Please help.

[joern.zaefferer]

We're moving away from Ant (and Make), likely going to adopt grunt, which is built on nodejs and runs on Windows.

[scott.gonzalez]

We still need to fix the fact that our build system doesn't work on Windows. The fact that we're moving away from ant doesn't mean we're not fixing the bug.

[aifam5]

Hi, I found something that might fix the error (in my work, I signed up in order to show you it). Well: The file "minify-js.sh" in the directory "build\build" should preferably contain a form:

#!/bin/bash
dir=$(dirname $0)
node.exe "$dir/uglify.js" "$1" > "$2"

Contrast, the file "build.xml" in the directory "build", the line from 120 to 133 swap on:

<apply executable="dash">
        <arg line="build/minify-js.sh" />
        <fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui" includes="**.js" />
        <srcfile />
        <mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/*.min.js" />
        <targetfile/>
</apply>
<apply executable="dash">
        <arg line="build/minify-js.sh" />
	<fileset dir="${dist.dir}/ui/i18n" includes="**.js" />
	<srcfile />
	<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="${min.dir}/i18n/*.min.js" />
	<targetfile/>
</apply>

Instead of "dash" may be any other terminal, but remember that you must add the argument, for example: "bash -c"

REMEMBER, you must have installed the latest "NodeJS" and "Apache Ant" and added them to the PATH system environment. They have to be images in a directory without spaces, for example: "C:\ant" and "C:\nodejs"

Regards, Aifam5

[scott.gonzalez]

@aifam5 We don't use ant anymore.

[joern.zaefferer]

Still need to improve the grunt build to work on Windows and remove the old build dir though.

[scott.gonzalez]

This works now. You just need to install zip.exe from  http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip and put it in your PATH.