Although you can easily just download the Swiz 1.0 Beta SWC (above), you can also check-out the project from github (the Swiz repository) into Flex Builder and build it yourself.

To do so (from scratch), try out these steps:

Install EGit

• Install the “EGit” eclipse plug-in (Update site: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates) into Flex Builder

Create Flex Library Project and import from github

• In Flex Builder, right-click in the Navigator pane, and choose “New –> Flex Library Project”. Give it a name, something like “SwizFramework”
• Click Finish
• Right click on the newly created project, and select Import –> Git –> Git Repository
• On the Swiz github page (http://github.com/swiz/swiz-framework, you’ll see a read-only URI to the repository: git://github.com/swiz/swiz-framework.git
• Copy that link into “Source Git Repository” import window (URI field) that opened up in Flex Builder
• The rest of the fields should auto-magically populate
• Click Next to see the existing branches for this repo…just check the “master” and hit Next
• In the Directory field, click Browse, and navigate to the “src” folder of the library project you just created
• Uncheck the “Import projects after clone” checkbox and click Finish
• The Swiz framework will be checked-out from github into your src folder
• Right-click on the library project and choose properties
• Access Flex Library Build Path from the left menu, then under “Main source folder”, click Browse and find the src folder within the code you just checked out from github. The path will probably be “src\swiz-framework\src”.
• Now access “Flex Library Compiler” option from the left menu and add this to the “additional compiler arguments” field:

-keep-as3-metadata+=Inject,Autowire,Outject,Mediate,Dispatcher,PostConstruct

• Right above that in the Namespace URL field, type “http://swiz.swizframework.org”
• Underneath that, in the Manifest file field, Browse to the manifest.xml file that’s in your src folder and click OK

That’s it…now you can include this Library Project in any Flex project you may already have by adding it to the Library Path tab under the Flex Build Path property screen in your project’s Properties, or you can grab the newly compiled SWC from the framework project’s /bin folder if you need more portability.

Hopefully this process is relatively clear for those of you that need the latest up-to-the-minute version of Swiz