Dojo Custom Build Error - build

Question

My HTML File : buildCheck.html
<SCRIPT src="/dojo/dojo.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT>
dojo.require("dijit.form.Button");
dojo.require("dijit.form.CheckBox");
dojo.require("dijit.form.ComboBox");
dojo.require("dijit.Dialog");
dojo.require("dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore");
dojo.require("my.app");
</SCRIPT>
Command :
>build.bat action=release htmlFiles=../../buildCheck1.html profile=myProfile
Error :
kwArgs.htmlFiles ../../buildCheck1.html
release: Using profile: profiles/myProfile.profile.js
release: Using version number: 0.0.0.dev for the release.
release: Deleting: ../../release/dojo
release: Copying: ../dojo/../dijit to: ../../release/dojo/dijit
release: ********** Not Copied: ../dojo/../dijit
release: Copying: ../dojo/../dojox to: ../../release/dojo/dojox
release: ********** Not Copied: ../dojo/../dojox
release: Copying: ../dojo to: ../../release/dojo/dojo
release: ********** Not Copied: ../dojo
release: Building dojo.js and layer files
js: "./../../dojo/_base/_loader/loader.js", line 423: exception from uncaught Ja
vaScript throw: Error: Could not load 'dojo.i18n'; last tried '../../release/doj
o/dojo/i18n.js'
I am geeting this error if i add the below component
dojo.require("dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore")
after removal the component build is working fine.
What can be the issue?What should i add to avoid this error?

Answer 1

It looks like at the point the error occurs, dojo/i18n has not yet been built. It seems weird to me, that you say it is the ItemFileReadStore - as noting in the dojo.data requires localization.
Try adding a manual dojo.require("dojo.i18n"); to your .html above any dijits reqs

Answer 2

I don't know how you had your files organized, but in my case, I had it like this:
- js
- dojo_require.js (the file with "dojo.require" statements, just like your "buildCheck.html")
- dojo-release-1.6.1-src (dojo files)
- dijit
- dojo
- dojox
- util
- buildscripts
- release
And I faced exactly the same problem. I figured out this happens, when the html file contains any require that loads something from the 'dojo' folder. dojo.require("dijit.<*>") is fine, dojo.require("dojox.<*>") is fine, but dojo.require("dojo.<*>") causes the build script to use an incorrect relative path to dojo. I was getting the same output as you:
release: Deleting: ../../release/dojo
release: Copying: ../dojo/../dijit to: ../../release/dojo/dijit
But I should have got something like Copying: ../../dojo/../dijit to: ../../release/dojo/dijit instead. One ../ was missing.
Now, it is probably a bug (I am lazy to investigate it further), and since 1.6 is a pretty old version of dojo, the correct fix should be to upgrade. But since at some occasions, it is just too much pain, here is a dirty hack that made it possible for my buildscript to run and finish:
In dojo-release-1.6.1-src/util/buildscripts/build.js, on the line 107, add this line:
prefixPath = '../' + prefixPath;
So that the entire block of code looks like this:
for(var i = 0; i < prefixes.length; i++){
var prefixName = prefixes[i][0];
var prefixPath = prefixes[i][1];
prefixPath = '../' + prefixPath; // HACK!
var finalPrefixPath = prefixPath;
if(finalPrefixPath.indexOf(".") == 0 && prefixName != "dojo"){
finalPrefixPath = dojoPrefixPath + "/" + prefixPath;
}
_copyToRelease(prefixName, finalPrefixPath, kwArgs, buildLayers);
if(kwArgs.symbol){
var releasePath = kwArgs.releaseDir + "/" + prefixName.replace(/\./g, "/");
buildUtil.insertSymbols(releasePath, kwArgs);
}
}