Compiling and building Alfresco

Building Alfresco in the default source code necessarily means just running an Ant build script; given that we have prepared our environment properly and met all the prerequisites as desired, it is quite easy to build Alfresco.

Getting ready

Make sure you have properly installed all the prerequisites mentioned in the first recipe. Apart from the optional last step, you must install and configure the rest.

How to do it...

1. 1. Let's check the deployed application in our Tomcat server. Assuming we have Tomcat installed in the E:\Alfresco Tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\ folder, the following screenshot shows the default webapps content:

   

2. 2. Thus, you can see we have no web applications in the Tomcat server.

3. 3. Now to build Alfresco open the Windows command prompt.

4. 4. Move to the folder where the Alfresco source code is downloaded. In my case, I have downloaded the code in the E:\Alfresco Source folder.

   

5. 5. Type command ant build-tomcat and press Enter.

6. 6. Be patient now. If...