haxe

An implementation of the haxe executable specified here.

The main idea is that it acts similarly to haxeshim, and still works with older versions of the compiler and haxelib.

This repository is not yet functional.

Build

Before building, you must run haxelib install build.hxml --always, in order to ensure you have all the correct library versions.

An executable can be built with CMake, using the CMakeLists.txt file. For example, cmake -S . -B bin. (See cmake website for more details).

On Windows, you can uncomment -D hlgen.makefile=vs2019 in the build.hxml, and run haxe build.hxml to generate Visual Studio solution files which can then be built using Visual Studio.

Setup

• If you are on linux and your haxe compiler is not located in /usr/bin/, set an environment variable HAXEPATH to the path where the executable is found
• Once you have built the executable in bin/, run the install-haxe.cmd script if you are on Windows or otherwise the install-haxe.sh script
• You have to run this script everytime you install a new version of the Haxe compiler using the standard haxe installer
• If you just want to update this executable and you haven't used the installer or otherwise updated your haxe compiler, run the script with an update argument, (i.e. install-haxe update or ./install-haxe.sh update)

Usage

The haxe executable is used as the new frontend to the haxe compiler (haxec). It assumes the haxe compiler itself has been renamed to haxec (Setup takes care of this).

It is used to run compilation commands, and before passing them onto the compiler it reads lock files, resolves all -lib flags, and finds the haxec executable to run.

Read here for more specific details

Additional functionality

Running haxe lib-setup can be used to configure the global repository path. This was added because in order to remove the dependency on haxelib, the haxe executable itself should be able to set this path and manage it.

Reverting back to a normal haxe setup

• Make sure that the haxe and haxec executables are not running
• If you are on linux and your haxe executable is not located in /usr/bin/, set an environment variable HAXEPATH to the path where the executable is found
• Run the uninstall-haxe script found in the bin/ directory
• You're back to a normal setup!