Flex: How does the compiler know about dependencies?

Question

I'm completely new to Flex and am just having a play with a sample application from the Mate framework. I'm hacking on Linux so I'm using the command prompt and a text editor rather than Flex Builder.

The sample app has two folders in its root directory lib & src. Lib contains a dependency. How can I compile the mxml file in src, so that the compiler knows about the dependency in lib?

At the moment I'm running $ mxmlc sampleApp/src/sampleApp.mxml

The compiler throws an exception saying that is couldn't resolve to a component implementation. I know this component is part of the dependency in the lib folder. So it is obviously not being picked up automatically.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Chris

Answer 1

You have to specify the path to the libraries, this can be done by either using a command line argument or putting it in a configuration file. See:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/compilers_19.html#158337