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HaxeFlixel in Cloud9

Posted on 2016-03-12

Tagged with: Haxe, OpenFL, HaxeFlixel

Cloud9 provides remote, cloud-based development enviornments. Under the hood, they provision you a Linux VM with Docker. By default, they provide pre-build environments for Rails, C++, PHP, and other enviornments. But not Haxe.

It turns out that setting up Haxe, OpenFL, and HaxeFlixel is really simple.

• For Haxe, download and run the Linux 64-bit binaries. (Copy the tar URL, eg. http://haxe.org/download/file/3.2.1/haxe-3.2.1-linux64.tar.gz, and grab it via curl <url>)
• For OpenFL, run haxelib install openfl.
• For HaxeFlixel, run haxelib install flixel. (Don't forget to install and setup flixel-tools too.)

That's it! You can build your Haxe apps, or your OpenFL/HaxeFlixel games in Flash. To view them:

• Find the binary in the workspace view
• Right-click and pick Preview
• Click the square/arrows icon to open in a new tab

This opens the SWF in a new window/tab where it runs properly.