Helm

Haxe Enhanced Library Manager provides recreatable builds, caching, and other benefits on top of haxelib. HELM works with haxelib instead of as a replacement. It enhances a Haxe project by providing the following benefits.

Locally stored packages
Zip and publish packages from the project folder
Options for installing packages and dependencies (haxelib, git, local paths)
Single version of a package installed
Packages are cached for quick installs
Initialize a project and pull in dependencies

Installing Libraries

Libraries can be installed locally, the default, or globally. Doing so will download the library and unzip it into the appropriate libs/ folder.

helm add openfl
# install from git (alternate shortcut)
helm add https://bitbucket.org/Lythom/haxepunk-gui.git
helm add HaxeFoundation/hxcpp # shortcut for github
# install from a folder
helm add c:\\Haxe\\mylib
# install a specific version
helm add format:3.1.2

Show Installed Libraries

To get a full listing of the installed libraries use the following command.

# shows libraries installed locally
helm list

Running commands

Helm can run commands just like haxelib does.

helm run openfl build html5
# or
helm openfl build html5

Building with hxml

Helm can also build hxml files.

helm build compile.hxml
# or to build all hxml files in your project
helm build