Comments on: Compiling ActionScript 3 and MXML on Mac and Linux

By: Daver K

Daver K — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:20:26 +0000

Hey guys,
So i’ve been doing some flex 4 flashplayer 10 work and felt like switching over to my Mac for a bit.. here is what it did..

download flashplayer 10 do an uninstall .. install.
download the flex 4 open source.. extract..

add this to your frameworks/flex-config.xml file
within the tag
macFonts.ser

hit up terminal..
go to your mxmlc.jar directory
> cd PathToFLEX4/lib
then type
> java -jar “mxmlc.jar” PathToActionScript/Code.as -load-config PathToFLEX4/frameworks/flex-config.xml

bingo bango..

if you want to get fancy..
add this to your flex-config.xml
for a little bit cleaner execution line..

PathToActionScript/

good luck!

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:02:40 +0000

Hi,

I’m using Ubuntu OS and new to flex3 and AS3.
I had written a sample file (Test.as) using AS3 which displays a button. Same way written it using mxml also and named it as Test.mxml

By giving “mxmlc Test.as”.I’m able to compile Test.as successfully,
But If I compile by giving “mxmlc Test.mxml”. Its showing me “Segementation fault (core dumped)”

Any suggestions on how to get rid of this.

Thanks,
Anil

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:50:39 +0000

suyash,

You are still using GCJ. There are pretty good instructions here: http://ccl.net/cca/software/SOURCES/JAVA/JSDK-1.5/index.shtml but basically, you just need to install ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.7/generic/RPMS.non-free/java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.13-1jpp.i586.rpm in addition to the Java package you already installed, then run: alternatives –config java

By: suyash

suyash — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:18:35 +0000

I had got JAVA segmentation fault error while compiling with mxml of default java package in FC6.I was suggested that fc6 java is buggy.So i downloaded and installed SUN’s j2sdk-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.bin

root@localhost bin]# java -version
java version “1.4.2″
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)

But still the SEGMENTATION FAULT error in compiling FLEX exists….Please ….Any suggestions??

[root@localhost bin]# ./mxmlc –strict=true –file-specs /root/Myfirst.mxml
Loading configuration file /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/frameworks/flex-config.xml
./mxmlc: line 34: 2736 Segmentation fault java $VMARGS -jar $FLEX_HOME/lib/mxmlc.jar $*

[root@localhost bin]# java -jar /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/lib/mxmlc.jar +flexlib /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/frameworks/ /root/Myfirst.mxml
Loading configuration file /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/frameworks/flex-config.xml
Segmentation fault

By: suyash

suyash — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:25:20 +0000

Hi…

[root@localhost bin]# java -jar /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/lib/mxmlc.jar +flexlib /opt/fds2/flex_2_sdk/frameworks /opt/fds2/flex_sdk_2/bin/sample1.mxml
defaults: Error: unable to open ‘/opt/fds2/flex_2_sdk/frameworks/flex-config.xml’

I am sure the paths are correct…why this error??

By: rakri

rakri — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:10:45 +0000

Hi Mike ,
If I’ve good understood , I can develop my application on windows , after I can compile it on linux ; but , I must use flex 1.5 for it because flash player on linux is yet on version 7 .
Is like this Mike ? Thank yoi for your answer .
rakri

By: Bill Garr

Bill Garr — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:32:17 +0000

I’m having trouble compiling an AS3 project in XCode. I’ve uncommented the in flex-config.xml, tried to set a new , tried adding -sp with my path to the command line, but … nothing. It’s not finding the flash packages. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, compiling mxml seems to work fine.
Also BTW, thanks so much for posting these instrux. Still hoping to join the fun…

By: ej

ej — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:06:15 +0000

i get “command line: unknown configuration variable flexlib”

can anyone help?

By: cesperanca

cesperanca — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:45:49 +0000

I had already compile some actionscript 3 classes with the eclipse plugin of flex builder 2 in linux. I can’t try the generated swf’s files in linux (because there is no flash player 8.5 for linux - for now), but when I tested them on Windows they work very well. I hope that on next version of flex builder 2 this “compatibility” be kept.

By: ianc

ianc — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:21:19 +0000

Actionscript is getting increasingly powerful. When ECMAScript 4 is standardised and Actionscript conforms to it will Actionscript be able to “eat its own dogfood” and compile mxml.

I hope Actionscript/Javascript2/EcmaScript4 replaces Java on the client entirely both for end users and developers. And eventually on the server as well!