Haxe 3 Release Notes

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The Haxe 3.0 RC2 is now available for download :

The goal of the RC is to ensure that the final release is bug-free. Please report any issue you might have upgrading or running your Haxe 2.x code to 3.0 on the Haxe Discussion Group.

Before starting upgrading your code, please read the following documentation :

Build from Sources

In order to build from sources, make sure you have some packages installed :

sudo apt-get install libzip-dev ocaml subversion

You can get Haxe Sources using the following SVN command :

svn co http://haxe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk haxe

Then go into the haxe directory and simply compile :

cd haxe
make clean all
sudo make install

Build Neko

NekoVM is used by some Haxe utilities. While it's not strictly required to run Haxe, it's highly recommended to install it as well.

Get the sources from NekoVM SVN :

svn co http://nekovm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk neko

Install a few packages necessary to compile neko :

sudo apt-get install libgc-dev libzip-dev libpcre3-dev
# if you want to get mod_neko and mod_tora
sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev

Then compile the sources :

cd neko
make clean all
sudo make install

Build on OSX

The steps to build on OSX are pretty similar than on Linux. Please make first sure you have the following installed:

  • Install XCode 4
  • If you don't have "make" in commandline, open XCode, create an empty project then go to Preferences/Downloads/Components and install CommandLineTools
  • Install MacPorts

Then run the following commands :

sudo port install boehmgc pcre ocaml

If you get an error "sh: /usr/bin/gcc-4.2: No such file or directory" try :

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

For Neko, use the following commands :

make os=osx
sudo make os=osx install

Manual Installation

On OSX/Linux, you can run the following commands to install Haxe after extracting the TGZ :

rm -f /usr/bin/haxe
cp haxe /usr/bin/haxe
rm -rf /usr/lib/haxe
mkdir /usr/lib/haxe
cp -r std /usr/lib/haxe
mkdir /usr/lib/haxe/lib
chmod 777 /usr/lib/haxe/lib
cp std/tools/haxelib/haxelib.sh /usr/bin/haxelib
chmod +x /usr/bin/haxelib

And for Neko :

# use libneko.so for Linux
cp libneko.dylib /usr/lib
cp neko nekoc nekotools nekoml nekoml.std /usr/bin
mkdir /usr/lib/neko
cp *.ndll /usr/lib/neko
version #19364, modified 2013-05-19 18:01:37 by orwellophile