haXe Forum > Haxe Compiler API

• Daniel Aug 23 at 09:09

  Hi Developers of Haxe.
  I've got an idea how you could ease the creation of new haxe targets. You could provide a haxelib which allows developers to write new targets in haxe. The haxelib should provide some kind of code-dom which can be used within a derived class implementing the target plattform:
  

  package org.haxe.platforms.java;
  
  class JavaTarget extends AbstractHaxeTarget {
      public function getTargetId() : String {
          return "java";
      }
      public function processCompileUnit(unit:CompileUnit) {
          // write byte code files or plain source
      }
      public function finish() {
          // package jar
      }
  }

  
  There are several ways how this code can be used:
  1. You could write a small haxe execution engine for the compiler which uses this haxe code.
  2. You could create a new haxe target for creating new targets. Compiling using this target creates a kind of interediate-code which can be used by the compiler.
  ...

  By providing such an API it would be so easy to write new targets like Java or C#.

  Greetings Daniel

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