diff --git a/bukkit-plugin/build.properties b/bukkit-plugin/build.properties
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+++ b/bukkit-plugin/build.properties
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+#
+# If building the plugin from source you need to first install bukkit 
+# Change this property to suit your environment
+# 
+bukkit-lib=/home/walter/bukkit/target/original-bukkit-1.4.6-R0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
diff --git a/bukkit-plugin/build.xml b/bukkit-plugin/build.xml
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+<project name="scriptcraft-bukkit-plugin" default="dist" basedir=".">
+  <property file="build.properties"/>
+  <description>Builds the scriptcraft.jar file - a plugin for bukkit</description>
+  <property name="src" location="src"/>
+  <property name="build" location="build"/>
+  <property name="dist" location="./" />
+  <target name="init">
+	 <tstamp/>
+	 <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+  
+  <target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile plugin source">
+	 <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpath="${bukkit-lib}">
+	 </javac>
+  </target>
+	 
+  <target name="zip_js" depends="compile">
+	 <zip zipfile="${build}/js-plugins.zip" basedir="../js-plugins"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="dist" depends="zip_js,compile" 
+			 description="generate the distribution" >
+    <!-- Create the distribution directory -->
+    <mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
+	 <copy file="plugin.yml" todir="${build}"/>
+    <!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
+    <jar jarfile="${dist}/scriptcraft-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+  
+  <target name="clean" description="clean up" >
+    <delete dir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+
+</project>