HAXE(1)

💖 HAXE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for haxe — the one and only command-line compiler for Haxe ✨ put your hair up, we're compiling.

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🌈 NAME 🌈

haxe — compile Haxe programs to SWF, Neko, JavaScript, PHP, C++, Java, C#, Python, Lua, or HashLink. yes, ALL of those. she contains multitudes. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

haxe -main class
[-swf9|-swf|-js|-neko|-php|-cpp|-as3|-cs|-java|-python|-hl|-lua] output
[options...]

literally just: pick a target, pick an output, tell her where -main lives, and go off. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

haxe is a command-line compiler which compiles Haxe programs into Flash SWF, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, C++, Java, C#, Python, Lua, Neko bytecode, or HashLink bytecode. one compiler, twelve-ish vibes, no notes. 👑

Haxe programs are syntactically similar to JavaScript — like, cousins energy — but they have a full-featured static type system with generics, compile-time macros, generalized algebraic datatypes, and more. the way that she has generics AND macros AND GADTs… main character behavior fr fr 😭💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -cp path — Add a directory to find source files. tell her where your stuff lives bestie 🎀
• -js file — Compile code to JavaScript file. 🌈
• -lua file — Compile code to Lua file. 🌙
• -swf file — Compile code to Flash SWF file. the classic, the icon, the legend 💫
• -as3 directory — Generate AS3 code into target directory.
• -neko file — Compile code to Neko Binary. 🐱
• -php file — Generate PHP code into target directory.
• -cpp file — Generate C++ code into target directory.
• -cppia file — Generate code to Cppia file.
• -cs directory — Generate C# code into target directory.
• -java directory — Generate Java code into target directory. ☕
• -python file — Generate Python code as target file. 🐍
• -hl file — Compile HL code as target file.
• -xml file — Generate XML types description.
• -main class — Select startup class. the main character of YOUR main character ✨
• -lib library[:version] — Use a haxelib library. optional :version if you're feeling specific 🎀
• -D var[=value] — Define a conditional compilation flag.
• -v — Turn on verbose mode. she will NOT stop talking and honestly? we love that for her 💀💖
• -debug — Add debug information to the compiled code.
• -help — Show extended help information.
• --help — Show extended help information. (same energy, two dashes, still iconic 🫶)
• --help-defines — Print help for all compiler specific defines.
• --help-metas — Print help for all compiler metadatas.
• <dot-path> — Compile the module specified by dot-path. just yeet the dotted path in there, no flag needed 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Haxe is currently maintained by the Haxe Foundation. It was originally written by Nicolas Cannasse for Motion-Twin. legends only, no cap 🫶✨

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• haxelib(1). her bestie, her ride-or-die, the library manager of the group chat 💖
• https://haxe.org/. go. click. slay. 🌐✨

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and that's the whole page bestie — this version is from May 12, 2017, and yeah, the footer still says HAXE(1) down there in the corner, being all mysterious. 💖 now go compile something iconic. mwah. 💅🎀🦋