Building

You need Subversion to check out the source code from our source code repository, and Maven 2 to build the source code. Currently, Maven 2.0.5 or 2.0.7 or newer is required for the build.

The following example shows how to build the trunk.

$ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/ftpserver/trunk/ ftpserver
$ cd ftpserver

We currently inline the commons-net project into our build. We use it heavily for unit testing and relies on the newest snapshot of which no binaries are available in the Maven repositories. Also, commons-net currently fails to build due to broken unit tests (tracked here), therefore, you need to follow these instructions to get a complete build:

$ cd commons-net-2
$ mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install
$ cd ../ftplet-api
$ mvn install
$ cd ../core
$ mvn install
$ cd ../server
$ mvn install

If you run into any problems running these steps, please report on the mailing lists

If you want to generate Eclipse project files, run:

$ mvn eclipse:eclipse   # Generate Eclipse project files if you want

To generate to distribution packages, including shell scripts and example configuration, run:

cd distribution
$ mvn package

The build requires a minimum Java 1.5 JDK to compile.