Creating Dojo 1.7.2 Custom Build

Dojo's build system provides a way to "build" Dojo and your other JavaScript resources and CSS files, so they can be more efficiently used in a production environment by your applications.

Many UI and dojo and UI developers face so many issues during creating the dojo custom build. 

Prerequisites:

You need the following installed on your computer to run Dojo’s build system:

 Java 1.4.2 or later (Java 1.5 recommended).

A source build of Dojo, which you can obtain at http://download.dojotoolkit.org/

Below are the steps to create the dojo 1.7.2 custom build.

1)      Create “dojo-customBuild” folder in <dojo src folder>\util\buildscripts\profiles

2)      Create a new profile name as “myprofile.profile.js” and put this file  under “dojo-customBuild” folder which we have created in step 1.

3)      Profile name is “myprofile.profile.js”. Put below entries in this file.

var profile = {

               

                basePath:"../../..",

               

                releaseDir:"./dojoRelease",

                layerOptimize: "shrinksafe.keepLines",

              

                hasReport: true,

                packages:[

                                {name: "dojo",location: "./dojo"},

                                {name: "dijit",location: "./dijit"},

                                {name: "dojox",location: "./dojox"}       

                ],

               

                layers: {

                                'dojo/dojo': {

                                                include: [ "dojo/dojo", "dojo/main", "dojo/i18n", "dojo/selector/acme", "dojo/fx/Toggler", "dijit/form/DropDownButton", "dijit/form/ComboButton", "dijit/PopupMenuItem", "dijit/MenuSeparator", "dijit/TooltipDialog", "dojo/dnd/AutoSource", "dojo/dnd/Target"],

      }

}

};

4)      Create “mydojo.js”  file and store this file inside in <dojo src folder>\dojo folder .  This is a layer file for dojo custom build as per project structure.

define([

                "dojo/parser",

                "dijit/dijit",

                "dojo/data/ItemFileReadStore",

                "dojo/data/ItemFileWriteStore",

                "dijit/layout/ContentPane",

                "dijit/layout/BorderContainer",

                "dijit/layout/TabContainer",

                "dijit/layout/StackContainer",

                "dijit/Tree",

                 "dijit/layout/AccordionPane",

                 "dijit/layout/AccordionContainer",

                 "dijit/Dialog",

                 "dijit/tree/ForestStoreModel",

                 "dijit/form/Button",

                 "dijit/form/ToggleButton",

                 "dojox/grid/TreeGrid",

                 "dojox/grid/DataGrid"],function(parser,dijit,ItemFileReadStore,ItemFileWriteStore,ContentPane,BorderContainer,TabContainer,StackContainer,Tree,AccordionPane,AccordionContainer,Dialog,ForestStoreModel,Button,ToggleButton,TreeGrid,DataGrid){

 });

5)      Run build.bat --profile ./myprofile –release command from  <dojo src folder>\util\buildscripts location.

6)      Custom build would be created inside <dojo src folder>\ dojoRelease

7)      The dojoRelease folder will contain dojo 1.7.2 custom build.