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• Alex Jun 08 at 06:24

  Hello!

  There is a library I think I would use often in my projects( https://github.com/Simn/hxop ). So I want to add it to my list of libraries in the same way as I do with the official libraries like "format". But I couldn't get how to use haxelib for it(if it's the right way at all).

  So, here it the question - how one should install libraries not from the official repository?

• Justin L Mills Jun 08 at 12:53

  Alex

  You don't really need to put code in a library to use it, you can just add the location to your hxml file..
  

  -cp  /hxop

  But you can manually add code to the library, on mac it can be found /usr/lib/haxe/lib/ so you would just move the library to /usr/lib/haxe/lib/hxop

  Now if you want to do this, but want to stored details about the library you can install a 'test' haxelib, not sure if the license (BSD?) is correct not a big git user so could not find that.

  <project name="hxop" url="https://github.com/Simn/hxop/g" license="BSD">
      <user name="Alex"/>
      <tag v=""/>
      <tag v=""/>
      <description>Overload Operator</description>
      <version name="test">Github version of hxop</version>
  </project>

  save this as haxelib.xml next to the hxop folder and then zip the folder containing them both ( zip -r hxopTest.zip /hxopTestFolder )
  from terminal you can then ask haxelib to put this test library in the library.
  

  haxelib test hxopTest.zip

  Then you can use hxop in the normal way from you hxml code.
  

  -lib hxop

  More details of this process are explained here

  http://haxe.org/doc/haxelib/using_haxelib

  Another approach maybe to use haxelib dev, but I am unsure if that works when there is no original library defined?

• Alex Jun 22 at 00:48

  Thanks for the detailed explanation! And sorry for a big delay with this answer.

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