diff --git a/build.properties b/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
+bukkit-version=1.4.6
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
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+<project name="scriptcraft" default="bukkit-dist" basedir=".">
+  <property file="build.properties"/>
+  <description>Builds the scriptcraft.jar file - a plugin for bukkit</description>
+  <property name="bukkit" location="bukkit-plugin"/>
+  <property name="src" location="${bukkit}/src"/>
+  <property name="build" location="${bukkit}/build"/>
+  <property name="dist" location="./" />
+  <target name="init">
+	 <tstamp/>
+	 <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+  
+  <target name="bukkit-compile" depends="init" description="compile bukkit plugin source">
+	 <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpath="${bukkit-lib}">
+	 </javac>
+  </target>
+	 
+  <target name="zip_js">
+	 <zip zipfile="${build}/js-plugins.zip" basedir="./js-plugins"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="bukkit-dist" depends="zip_js,bukkit-compile" 
+			 description="generate the distribution" >
+    <!-- Create the distribution directory -->
+    <mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
+	 <copy file="bukkit-plugin/plugin.yml" todir="${build}"/>
+    <!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
+    <jar jarfile="${dist}/scriptcraft-${bukkit-version}-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+  
+  <target name="clean" description="clean up" >
+    <delete dir="${build}"/>
+  </target>
+
+</project>