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2.9. Building Tomcat from source

This section will cover what is necessary to build Tomcat from the source files.
Tomcat 5

In order to compile Tomcat 5 from source the following commands will need to be executed in sequence: 

cd servletapi/jsr154
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export CLASSPATH=servletapi4.jar
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ant -Dbuild.compiler=modern dist
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cd ../../servletapi/jsr152
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ant -Dbuild.compiler=modern dist
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cd ../../build
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sed -i -e 's:INSTALL_DIR:<install_directory>/jboss-ews-1.0-src/tomcat5:g' build.properties
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export CLASSPATH=../servletapi/jsr154/dist/lib/servlet-api.jar:../servletapi/jsr152/dist/lib/jsp-api.jar:../jakarta-taglibs-core.jar:../jakarta-taglibs-standard.jar:../struts.jar:../struts-taglib.jar:../ant.jar:../build/build/server/lib/tomcat-apr.jar
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ant -Dbuild.compiler=modern build-jasper-compiler-jdt  release
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Tomcat 6

In order to compile Tomcat 6 from source the following command will need to be executed: 

ant -Dbase.path="." -Dbuild.compiler="modern" -Dcommons-collections.jar="commons-collections.jar"  -Dcommons-daemon.jar="commons-daemon.jar"  -Dcommons-daemon.jsvc.tar.gz="jsvc.tar.gz"  -Djasper-jdt.jar="jasper-jdt.jar"  -Djdt.jar="jasper-jdt.jar"  -Dtomcat-dbcp.jar="tomcat-dbcp.jar"  -Dtomcat-native.tar.gz=""
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