[Feature Request] AIR Linux support

[itlancer]

Please return back (and continue develop) Linux support for AIR.
Linux market share growth and many clients need to Linux support too. Its many kiosks, retail devices etc.
This feature important for many enterprise clients and also for IoT devices.

[pol2095]

In the release notes of AIR 33.1.1.533_BETA, I see Linux support, for commercial licensees but how to download "Adobe AIR SDK – for Linux" ? thanks

[ajwfrost]

The web app changes for Linux have just been done but it's not yet been pushed live - should be ready on Monday I hope!
thanks

[pol2095]

Great job.

[pol2095]

Any news to download "Adobe AIR SDK – for Linux" ?

[ajwfrost]

It was meant to get updated at the weekend - have just chased up again, although I know the guy doing this has had some family issues hence the delays :-(

[pol2095]

Thanks, Air for Linux support Stage3D, File, SQLite, Socket, SecureSocket, PrintJob, ANE, NativeProcess, ... ?

[ajwfrost]

I'll have to check on the PrintJob actually... but the rest should be okay! Stage3D implemented via OpenGL ES with MESA drivers I believe..

[ajwfrost]

@pol2095 we got the website updated now .. let us know of any issues!
thanks

[itlancer]

@ajwfrost
Trying to download AIR SDK for Linux with new ActionScript Compiler cause redirect without file downloading. And it seems to trying to download Flex SDK edition.

[ajwfrost]

Sorry! I should have checked that ...!
Updated now

thanks

[pol2095]

I tried on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS :

I have this message error with adl :

/home/user/AIR_SDK_33.1.1.533/bin/../runtimes/air/linux/Adobe
AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so
Error loading the runtime (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: 
version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by /home/user/AIR_SDK_33.1.1.533/bin/../runtimes/air/linux/Adobe
AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so))

and with adt (captive runtime) :
Failed to load the AIR Runtime

[rathann]

On Fedora 34 it's crashing with a SIGSEGV after loading an old AIR game (Botanicula):

$ ./adl /usr/share/botanicula/BotaniculaLinux-app.xml /usr/share/botanicula
loadRuntime: /home/rathann/adobe-air-33.1.1.533/bin/../runtimes/air/linux/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/libCore.so
Application crashed with an unhandled SIGSEGV

Stack trace is not very useful because all the debug symbols were stripped. @ajwfrost would you like me to open a separate issue for the crash?

[ajwfrost]

Thanks, we'll look into these issues -> yes please feel free to raise new bugs against them. Stack trace is useful for us because we have the map/gdb files here :-)

thanks

[pol2095]

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS it work correctly, I think Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS need libcurl4

[pol2095]

contentsScaleFactor (scaling of the stage) seems not working on Ubuntu ? the window is very small (4K screen)

[pol2095]

adt has a new target ane -platform "Linux-x86-64" since Air 33.1.1.533, but how to create an Air Native Extensions for Linux ?

[Twilight774]

Any progress? Should we wait for version for commoners? I mean Air runtime not SDK

[ajwfrost]

@Twilight774 getting a shared AIR runtime together for Linux is something we'll be looking at but isn't a particular priority right now, as you should be able to package up applications as bundles and distribute those. There's still a potential issue with the 'native' targets (i.e. creating RPM/DEB files) but the focus for a while has been on the contentsScaleFactor issue, which has meant we've been looking at a major update to use GTK3...

@pol2095 creating ANEs should be similar to creating them for Android native (C++) targets. There's an include file and a library to link against within the AIR SDK, and the platform tag as you say is Linux-x86-64. Are you having any specific issues with the packaging process, or getting them to run?

thanks

[pol2095]

ANE

ANE work now.

[al-sabr]

Could someone create a vcpkg for the c++ header files required to build ANE on the different platforms?

I am talking about the FlashRuntimeExtensions.h

You can take an example on this : https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/tree/master/ports/libtorrent

[itlancer]

With latest AIR versions Linux support level already pretty well!
Thank you to return Linux platform support!

It still have some issue but I will create new tickets about that.
Right now especially critical EncryptedLocalStore support #1829