Haxe installation from binaries

Question

Someone can help me to install Haxe 4.0.0-rc.5 from the binaries on Ubuntu 19.4. The repository pointed out by the page does not have the new versions and on the official page there are no instructions on how to do it. Thanks!

Answer 1

Here's a script I use on CI servers running Ubuntu. It installs Haxe and Neko in /opt/, but you could put them anywhere (replace /opt/ with whatever location you want, like /usr/local/ or $HOME/tools/):

# Install neko and Haxe
cd /opt/
curl -sL http://nekovm.org/media/neko-2.1.0-linux64.tar.gz | tar -xz
curl -sL https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/releases/download/4.0.0-rc.5/haxe-4.0.0-rc.5-linux64.tar.gz | tar -xz
mv haxe_* haxe-4.0.0-rc5
ln -s haxe-4.0.0-rc5 haxe # symlink makes it easy to switch versions

Then you'll want these environment variables defined in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:

export NEKOPATH=/opt/neko-2.1.0-linux64/
export HAXE_STD_PATH=/opt/haxe/std
export PATH=/opt/haxe/:/opt/neko-2.1.0-linux64/:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/neko-2.1.0-linux64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And to finish the install (after the exports are setup), you need to run once:

haxelib setup ~/haxelib

I've also written up how I manage multiple versions of Haxe on Ubuntu on the Haxe forums: https://community.haxe.org/t/quick-write-up-of-how-i-manage-haxe-versions-under-linux/1694

To uninstall:

• remove the exports from .bashrc
• rm -rf /opt/haxe* /opt/neko* ~/haxelib