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[Kekskiller]

I'm learning ActionScript at the moment and am looking for some ways to code and compile it on Linux. I know it works with Eclipse and AXDT, but well - for me, Eclipse is a piece of junk and suffers from horrible instability problems on Ubuntu 9.10/my Linux system. I'm able to compile my AS3 files sometimes, but most of the time Eclipse freezes GUI parts of itself, disables menus and such - I really don't know what's goind on there.

So yeah, as may notice, I'm not a big fan of Eclipse. Does anybody know how to get this working different? Cest case would be a pure terminal compilation since I'm comfortable with gedit and command line compiling.

Thanks in advance for everything useful.

[deWiTTERS]

You can do a command line compile with 'mxmlc' which comes with the Flex package. For editor you can use anything you want of course, but I prefer Vim .

[Draknek]

I do command-line Flash development from Linux.

You want to get the above-linked mxmlc, but then instead of directly calling that, use my script fcsh-wrap. That will speed up compile times.

The only required argument to mxmlc/fcsh-wrap is the name of your swf entry-point (i.e. Main.as). That said, my makefile currently looks something like this:

Code:

OUTPUT := fall-inwards.swf

ifdef DEBUG
DEBUG_FLAG := true
else
DEBUG_FLAG := false
endif

all:
	fcsh-wrap -optimize=true -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true -compatibility-version=3.0.0 --target-player=10.0.0 -compiler.debug=$(DEBUG_FLAG) Main.as -output $(OUTPUT)

clean:
	rm -f *~ .FW.* $(OUTPUT)

.PHONY: all clean

[Kekskiller]

Thanks for your replies, guys. I'll test mxmlc next morning, I'm done with Flash for today.

You want to get the above-linked mxmlc, but then instead of directly calling that, use my script fcsh-wrap. That will speed up compile times.

What's the purpose of this script? I'm not sure if I want to use a script that looks like a lot but also like... nothing. From the code in your script I don't see why it speeds up compiling time nor what it does exactly.

[Skofo]

I used this on Linux a couple years ago: http://arthurdick.com/projects/as3/

Back when I used that it, it needed a little adjustment to get the one key build+debug to work. The XML build file needed a small change to get it to work, but it was something very weird and not documented anywhere so I'm fairly sure that it was a bug. The thing I linked hasn't been updated since then, but maybe the bug was fixed in the Flex SDK/Ant?

[Draknek]

What's the purpose of this script? I'm not sure if I want to use a script that looks like a lot but also like... nothing. From the code in your script I don't see why it speeds up compiling time nor what it does exactly.

Sorry, I realise I could do better on the documentation side. Have updated the readme, hopefully it is clearer?

Basically mxmlc is really slow because it compiles from scratch every time. The tool fcsh solves this problem but introduces others of its own, so fcsh-wrap is a script to get the improved compile times without having to use fcsh directly.

[Kekskiller]

Holy fuck Draknek, that's pretty fast. Good stuff you did there .

But I have to mention that using spaces in folder names doesn't work so well with you script :O

[Draknek]

Ah, so you can't do this:

Code:

fcsh-wrap 'Folder name/Main.as'

Is that it?

I will have a look and see if I can easily fix that.

[Kekskiller]

Nah, I meant when specifying the fcsh path. I have mine one in "flex sdk 4.1", it told it couldn't find the folder "flex" and so.

[Draknek]

Ah right, in that case you can do this:

Code:

FCSH_COMMAND = "'/path/to/flex sdk 4.1/bin'"

With two sets of quotes.

[Kekskiller]

Ah, ok. This should work better.