[Papervision3D] [How To] Using AS3 on a Linux platform.

[Gedeon Stol]

Thanks for that :)

I also noticed another way of getting AS3 happening:
http://flex2cpp.sourceforge.net/



On 4/23/07, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a brief tutorial on using Flex Builder 2 under Linux, natively,
> without needing an emulation layer like Wine or VMWare:
>
> http://blog.davr.org/2007/04/22/flex-builder-201-under-linux/
>
> On 2/12/07, Evan Metheny <evanpmeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Posted this on
> http://forum.papervision3d.org/Resources/CommunityForums/tabid/60/forumid/5/scope/threads/Default.aspx
> >
> > Just thought it would get more use here.
> >
> >
> >
> > There are Four different ways i found how to compile mxmlc(as3) on a Linux
> platform:
> > 1.) Eclipse flex2ant and Flex 2 SDK:
> > Using eclipse and the flex2ant plugin is my preferred method, because i
> use eclipse for many other programing languages as well.
> >        1 - Download the free flex sdk from
> http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
> >               I found installing this was not straight forward in the
> installation files. The easiest way to do it is to Unzip the SDK into a
> permanent directory point to where your java plugin is in this file
> flex/bin/jvm.config (eg "
> java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so")
> >               Thats all you have to do to install it.
> >         2 - Follow the directions on this page for installing the flex2ant
> plugin: http://www.flex2ant.org/
> >         3- Create a generic project in eclipse
> File>New>Project..>General>Project , Then create folders
> named bin and src.
> >         4 -Make your build.xml file (example on the flex2ant page) and put
> it in the base directory, Here is mine for the focus example:
> >   <project name="flex" basedir="/home/evan/workspace/flex"
> default="compile">
> >
> >             <property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}/src" />
> >             <property name="bin.dir" value="${basedir}/bin" />
> >
> >             <target name="compile" description="compiles the tasks">
> >                 <mxmlc
> >                     compiler="${mxmlc}"
> >                     mainclass="${src.dir}/main.as"
> >                     as3="true"
> >                     strict="true"
> >                     output="${bin.dir}/focus.swf"
> >                     benchmark="false"
> >                 />
> >             </target>
> >         </project>
> > As you can notice above the basedir is the path to the projects home
> folder.
> > As for the above build file, in order to get it to work with the eclipse
> example on the svn host. Copy the paper vision src (org and com directories)
> to your src directory in your project. then get this zip file (
> http://evamet1.coconia.net/focus.zip ) and put the three
> files main.as, FocusBody.png, Wheel.png into the src directory.  After that
> copy the Focus.dae ( in the same zip )  file to the bin directory because
> that is where the ouputed .SWF will end up.  Then follow below:
> >           5 - Turn off the error reporting because the plug in does not
> support live debugging :(. oh Well.
> >           6-  To build a project all you have to do is save the main.as
> that is in the src directory file. Make sure the project is selected in the
> left frame. Then press:
> > Shift+Alt+x
> > then press
> > Q
> > and you should get any error reporting in the console at the bottom.
> >            -To run the project just go to the bin folder in the project
> and double click on the swf file created ( focus.swf).
> >            -Thats it
> >
> > 2.) Comand-line and Shell Script w/ Flex 2 SDK:
> > The second way of compiling mxmlc source is to follow the first step above
> for the Flex SDK installation and write a shell script to compile your
> project. First make mxmlc to be able to run anywhere. Create a script called
> mxmlc and put this in it EXCEPT put your home flex directory where the zip
> was extracted:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > FLEX=" /home/evan/downloads/flex "   # Replace with yours
> >
> > VMARGS="-Xmx384m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false"
> >
> > java $VMARGS -jar "$FLEX/lib/mxmlc.jar" +flexlib="$FLEX /frameworks" $*
> >
> > Then save it. After that, add it to your user binaries with this comand:
> sudo ln -s /path/to/new/file/mxmlc /usr/bin/mxmlc
> > Now mxmlc is available anywhere. From there you can compile a project like
> so:
> > :~$ mxmlc /path/to/main.as
> > This will output a file that is named main.swf
> > to change the output refer to :
> http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/Part7_Build_Deploy.html
> >
> > Then you can create a file to do this for you by just double clicking on
> it and it will compile and open in FireFox to be viewed.. Make a file called
> compile_main and put this in it:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > mxmlc /home/evan/workspace/flex/src/main.as
> > exec firefox /home/evan/workspace/flex/src/main.swf
> >
> > Save and quit. Then run these commands in terminal:
> > :~$ sudo chmod 0755 compile_main
> > :~$ sudo chmod a+X compile_main
> >
> >  Now you can just double click on the file and it outputs an swf and opens
> it.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3)Flash 9 Pro Alpha and Wine:
> > Another way is to get Flash 9 Pro Alpha to work through wine, the only
> configuration that needs to be done is  to type in winecfg in the terminal
> and change default settings to windows XP from there all you do is run the
> install file through wine (eg :~$ wine FL9_AS3_Labs_06-27.exe ) and
> everything shall work. I am using wine-0.9.28 and ubuntu edgy.
> >
> > 4)Using Flex Builder 2 on VMWare:
> > This is the non recommended way unless you have sufficient memory. Install
> the latest version of VMWare and install windows 2000 pro. Why 2000, its
> because it uses a great deal less memory and space then XP and Vista, plus
> its exactly the same as XP without the fancy look. Just update the service
> pack and msi installer. Then just install Flex Builder 2. In order to share
> file between your VMWare windows 2000 and your linux host follow bellow:
> >
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html
> >
> > Hope this helps any of those people out there on Linux
> >
> > -EvanPMeth
> >
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