The Shed

Thankyou, Adobe, for going Open Source with swf! Now, it took me a while to find out how to get the flex compiler working in Ubuntu, but it’s pretty easy when it comes down to it.

First, download the Flex SDK from www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/

Unzip it somewhere. I put it in /home/ben/coding/flex

Now you need a makefile. Put this in your user folder (in my case /home/ben/) - it’s just a file with the name Makefile (the capital M is important), containing the following code:

MXMLC = coding/flex/bin/mxmlc
MFLAGS =

.SUFFIXES:    .as .swf
.as.swf:
    $(MXMLC) $(MFLAGS) $<
    firefox $@

To test it out, I made a file called hello.as in my /coding directory, containing the following:

package {
    import flash.display.*;
    import flash.text.*;
    public class hello extends Sprite{
        public function hello (){
            var t:TextField = new TextField();
            t.text = “Hello World!”;
            t.width = 300;
            t.height = 200;
            t.x = 50;
            t.y = 20;
            addChild(t);
        }
    }
}

Then pulled up a terminal and typed:

make coding/hello.swf

This compiled the swf and launched it in firefox, as intended - w00t!

I learnt how to do it here: http://ntt.cc/2008/05/19/using-actionscript-3-to-develop-adobe-flash-content-on-linux.html

Tags: Installing Ubuntu

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