Hi Phil,
You are totally right! However, I read that manuel. At page 13 it is "described" how to form an .modl in the following way:
Compile and Deploy
Now all of your projects should be in Eclipse and it will compile (or "build") all of them. You'll notice
that one of the projects is called "Build". This project has all of the Ant scripts that are used to
compile and assemble the Java code into an Ignition *.modl file. Each project has its own build file.
For example, the component example projects have a build file called build-componentexample.
xml. Double click on this Ant file to open it in Eclipse's Ant editor. (If it opens in a raw
XML editor, close that, and then right click on it and choose Open With > Ant Editor). You'll see in
Eclipse's Outline view each of the Ant script's Targets. These are what you'll use to compile your
module. You can right-click on the "build" target and choose Run As > Ant Build to build that
module file. If you have a Developer Mode Gateway running locally, you can run the "deploy" target
to push your newly built module to your Gateway.
That's it! You're up and running. You've compiled and deployed a module using the SDK. Now you
can write your own module or adapt one of the examples to create new functionality for Ignition.
However, there are several problems:
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Where are theses "Ant scripts" located in the "build" project? I have an ExpressionFunctions-build project, but don't see any of theses scripts.
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I don't see any "...build.xml" files in any of my projects. I have some Expression-Functions-build.iml files!
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The rest of the text I don't need to mention, because step 1. and 2. have to be solved first.
Thank you for help.