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[failrate]

NOTE: This tutorial does not explain how to learn or use Actionscript, or even what Flixel is!  If you want to know more about these things or other topics, please check out the general help thread.  Thanks!


Building and running Flex projects is very easy, even without an IDE:

1. Make sure to download and install the Flex SDK.  http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3sdk
2. Make sure to download and install a Flash standalone player http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz and/or http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz
3. Download and unzip the flixel_v1.0.zip
4. Include the path to your mxmlc binary.  `export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/mxmlc`
5. Also include the path to your flashplayer. `export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/flashplayer`
6. Move to the flixel_v1.0 directory. `cd /path/to/flixel_v1.0`
7. Compile the Mode demo game. `mxmlc Mode.as`
8. It should compile without any errors.
9. Run the demo game in standalone. `flashplayer Mode.swf`

I've tried to be as thorough as possible.  I'm assuming some experience with Linux, but if there are any questions, please ask.

Thank you.

[Adam Atomic]

Thanks dude!  I added it to the official help thread

[triptych]

Note you dont have to be in Linux for this to work... both windows and mac can do command line too.

[failrate]

Different commands for setting the PATH environment variable, on Windows, though.  Although, it might be the same on MacOSX.  I just don't have either of those environments available for testing.

[radix]

2. Make sure to download and install a Flash standalone player http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz and/or http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz

For what it's worth, it's not *really* required to use a standalone flash player. You can just load the .swf file in firefox or whatever and it should work fine.

Thanks for the instructions, failrate! Adam, maybe you could change the front flixel page to include "Linux" underneath mxmlc in addition to "mac + windows"? I was kind of turned off at first because I didn't think flixel would work on Linux.

[Adam Atomic]

done

[radix]

done

Awesome!

[failrate]

For what it's worth, it's not *really* required to use a standalone flash player. You can just load the .swf file in firefox or whatever and it should work fine.

True, but I prefer it for two reasons:
1) I can work completely from the command line (I don't need to manually switch to Firefox when compilation has finished).
2) I can test Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10 compatibility without changing my Firefox plugin.

Another possible benefit that I don't exploit is the debugging facilities of the debug versions of the standalone players.

[gspawn]

I can't seem to find a version of Flex Builder for Linux at the link provided. Is Linux no longer supported?

[Adam Atomic]

There hasn't ever been a linux version that I know of...this thread is regarding using the Flex SDK from the commandline

[gspawn]

Ok, noobish question then. If I need the Flex SDK to be able to compile stuff under Linux, should I download the Mac version or the Windows version from the site?

[Adam Atomic]

the flex SDK does not have mac or windows or linux versions, there is just the flex SDK, for "all platforms"

[gspawn]

That's what I would have thought, but when I click the link in the tutorial to download it, I get 4 download options:

MacOS, English
Windows, English
Eclipse Plugin, MacOS, English
Eclipse Plugin, Windows, English

So you can see why there's some confusion here. If it's platform independant, should I just grab the windows one?

[dan]

gspawn, you're getting confused between the Flex SDK and Flex Builder.

You want the download here for the SDK: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3sdk

Flex Builder on Linux was never officially released. It was only ever released as an alpha product that was a plugin for Eclipse that was feature incomplete and it has not been updated for about a year now. Outlook is not good for Flex Builder on Linux.   However, the SDK still works fine on all platforms including Linux. You can find the Linux version of Flex Builder here if you really want to try it, I haven't bothered: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flexbuilder_linux.html

I have been using Geany as my IDE for Flex on Linux.

[gspawn]

Excellent! Thanks for clearing that up. I knew there was something I was missing.