Installs Haxe using Node Package Manager aka npm
- Global or per-project, sandboxed, standard Haxe installation
- No dependency to Neko/libneko (except for
haxelib run ...
) - Includes Haxelib
- Tested on Ubuntu/Linux and Windows
npm install haxe@next
By default, this will make haxe
and haxelib
available to npm scripts only,
with haxelib repository sandboxed to your current working directory.
To have haxe
and haxelib
commands available globally, use the -g
flag.
This will also make the haxelib repo global.
{
"scripts":{
"postinstall": "haxelib --always install build.hxml",
"build": "haxe build.hxml"
},
"dependencies": {
"haxe": "next"
}
}
Please notice the --always
flag in the haxelib
command, to avoid having to confirm haxelibs installation.
This package also comes with the minimal bindings to run the Haxe compiler from NodeJS.
var haxe = require('haxe').haxe;
var haxelib = require('haxe').haxelib;
// all commands return a ChildProcess instance
haxe( "-version" );
haxelib( "install", "hxnodejs" );
var server = haxe("--wait", "6000");
See also test.js
The following configuration options can be set in your package.json.
Please note they must be set before installing the package.
"config": {
"haxe:version": "3.2.1",
"haxe:nightly": "",
"haxe:haxelib_version": "3.2.0-rc.1"
}
See Haxe Download list. Please notice the directory name in the archive must match.
haxe:nightly
value can be, for example "2016-02-25_development_7c4fd45"
,
for current latest nightly build.
In this case, the haxe:version
value is still used, and must match the one of the directory extracted from the archive.
haxe:haxelib_version
must match a release from the official Haxelib repo
The package relies on the node
command, which [has issues on some Ubuntu versions] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21168141/cannot-install-packages-using-node-package-manager-in-ubuntu).
If you get an error similar to this :
sh: 1: node: not found
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read /usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
Just install the nodejs-legacy
package:
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy