Building Flex on a Headless Server
November 11, 2010
I'm building Flex code from Hudson via ant, and it runs in a headless environment, failing with:
Error: An error occurred because there is no graphics environment available. Please set the headless-server setting in the Flex configuration file to true.
This means editing flex-config.xml, which is located in:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.3\frameworks
on windows. In my case I'd copied the SDKs to /apps/sdks on a linux box, so mine were in
/apps/sdks/3.3/frameworks
As a subtag of <compiler>, add
<headless-server>true</headless-server>
This will then fix the problem.
Not sure why the compiler can't autodetect this and cope, but never mind!
