mxmlc / compc and ANEs

[marchbold]

Is there any reason mxmlc and compc seem to ignore ANEs added as external-library-path?

Currently you have to either extract a swc from the ane (what some IDEs do) or simply rename the .ane to .swc (normally what we do in our builds). The ANE format at it's base level is the same as a SWC so it's not surprising this works.

I wonder if it's something we could easily add into the compilers just to accept ANE's as external libraries directly?

[ajwfrost]

Hi @marchbold - I've just come across this topic, and wondered if it's still an issue? I've just run a command line which works:

mxmlc -debug AIRInfo.as -compiler.external-library-path+=ane\com.distriqt.Core.ane

This was with a 50.2 AIR SDK. But I don't see any changes that we'd made in the compiler.jar to suddenly change the behaviour around this, wondering if there may be a difference in the Flex compiler vs the AIR one perhaps?

thanks

[marchbold]

Ant output:

Buildfile: /Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/airsdk/tests/mxmlc-anes/build.xml

build:
    [mxmlc] Loading configuration: /Users/marchbold/work/sdks/air/AIRSDK_50.2.3/frameworks/air-config.xml
    [mxmlc] 
    [mxmlc] 
    [mxmlc] /Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/airsdk/tests/mxmlc-anes/src/TestMXMLC.as:4
    [mxmlc] Warning: Definition com.distriqt.extension.core.Core could not be found.
    [mxmlc]     import com.distriqt.extension.core.Core;
    [mxmlc]            ^
    [mxmlc] 
    [mxmlc] /Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/airsdk/tests/mxmlc-anes/src/TestMXMLC.as:10
    [mxmlc] Error: Access of possibly undefined property Core.
    [mxmlc]             Core.init();
    [mxmlc]             ^
    [mxmlc] 

BUILD FAILED
/Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/airsdk/tests/mxmlc-anes/build.xml:13: mxmlc task failed

Total time: 0 seconds

[ajwfrost]

Ah I see ... so yes, the flexTasks.jar file appears to be doing some initial configuration/checking before loading in the compiler.jar to do the actual work. And yes, there's a library configuration file that is doing a check on just ".swc" as the extension.

Should be easy to update I think...

[ajwfrost]

Try with the jar file in here...
flexTasks.zip

[marchbold]

AMAZING!!

That did it! Love ya work @ajwfrost !!!

[ajwfrost]

Great .. will get that put in to the next release.
thanks