HI Justin, I succeeded in setting up the Flex 4.9 SDK on FDT 5+. In some ways it was very similar to your approach but I took a different route. On account of the paucity of support for Linux in the flash player I have most of my workstations dual booting in Win7 and Linux Mint. The machine I tested this on is an Asus G73. I started first by building the Flex SDK in Windows with the SDK installer and tested the SDK in FlashBuilder 4.6 and FDT 5. Ca marche! Then I logged into Linux Mint. Having read your ToDo I decide to look inside the Windows assembled Flex SDK first. It seemed like it totally matched your directions interms of file locations and so on. I copied the SDK across to my Linus SDK folder and plugged it into FDT5 (expecting it to fail). Non, c'est parfait. Worked like a dream. So it seems that there is the option to build the SDK in windows and just copy the SDK into Linux and that's that
~a~ www.ayobinitie.com http://mrbinitie.blogspot.com On 20 February 2013 03:37, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just posted on the user list but perhaps not everyone is subscribed and > though it may be of interest. > > Looks like Linux works out of the box with very little config/downloads > from the binary distribution. > > 1. Untar binary distribution of Apache Flex > > 2. Configure SDK > I cheated a little here just to get it work: > a) Copied the flex-conf.xml file from /ide/config/flex-config.xml to > /frameworks > b) Create the directory frameworks/libs/player/11.1 and copied the 11.1 > playerglobal.swc here. > > 3. Create file and test > a) Created a simple mxml file consisting of an Application, a Label and a > code block > b) Compiled file using bin/mxml > > ./bin/mxmlc test.mxml > Loading configuration file > /home/ec2-user/flex/apache-flex-sdk-4.9.1-bin/frameworks/flex-config.xml > /home/ec2-user/flex/apache-flex-sdk-4.9.1-bin/bin/test.swf (253181 bytes) > > The swf run and displayed correctly (on another machine). > > This was on a amazon linux micro instance and I was using Apache Flex > 4.9.1 but should be no issues with 4.9.0. No environment variable were need > and I didn't to do anything other than above! Too easy really! > > Does any committer who knows a bit more of about linux (and it various > distributions) than me want to run with this and make Linux a fully > supported platform for Apache Flex? > > Thanks, > Justin
