extlib-dev install.ml Modifications:

line 52 : add 2 lines : let os_type = Sys.os_type and let os_type = "MinGW"
line 55 : replace Sys.os_type by os_type
line 56 : replace | "Unix" | "Cygwin" | "MacOS" by | "Unix" | "Cygwin" | "MacOS" | "MinGW"

Links

- MinGW/MSYS Home Page
- Latest MinGW/MSYS packages
- Latest GCC for MinGW
- GNUWin32 packages

Linux

The complete build and install process looks like (may contains some minor errors) :

mkdir haxe
cd haxe

# download and compile haxe, you may require some development libraries 
# like libmysql, libz, libsqlite3, ... and of course ocaml
wget http://haxe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/install.ml
ocaml install.ml

# install haxe in /usr/local
sudo mkdir /usr/local/haxe
sudo mkdir /usr/local/haxe/bin
sudo cp haxe/bin/* /usr/local/haxe/bin
sudo cp -r haxe/std /usr/local/haxe
sudo ln -s /usr/local/haxe/bin/haxe /usr/local/bin/haxe

# setup environment variables for haxe
sudo grep "HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH" /etc/environment || echo "export HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/haxe/std:." >> /etc/environment

# download and compile neko
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.motion-twin.com:/cvsroot login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.motion-twin.com:/cvsroot co neko
cd neko
make

# install neko
sudo mkdir /usr/local/neko
sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/neko
sudo ln -s /usr/local/neko/neko* /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s /usr/local/neko/libneko.so /usr/local/lib

# may be required if /usr/local/lib is not in your library search path
sudo grep "/usr/local/lib" /etc/ld.so.conf || echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
sudo ldconfig

# setup environment variables for neko
sudo grep "NEKOPATH" /etc/environment || echo "export NEKOPATH=/usr/local/neko" >> /etc/environment

Two quick notes about building Neko:

• Since subshell () is used in the Neko Makefile, you may get a segfault from bash because of insufficient stack. To avoid this problem, you can increase the stack size by 'ulimit -s 20000'.
• If you are not using gcc or an earlier gcc version, the option -fno-stack-protector may not be recognized. All you need to do is to removed it from the Neko Makefile. (Also comment it out in src/tools/neko.install, line 82 and 83).

Some additional notes (ppelleti Thu Dec 20 00:07:05 PST 2012):

• Uncaught exception - module.c(124) : Builtin not found : fasthash seems to be a symptom that neko is too old (e. g. the one installed from the OS distribution)
• When building neko from source, the cvs checkout failed for me with cvs server: cannot find module `neko' - ignored - using svn checkout http://nekovm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ nekovm-read-only worked better for me
• vm/alloc.c:40:19: fatal error: gc/gc.h: No such file or directory is a symptom of not having the Boehm garbage collector installed; sudo apt-get install libgc-dev fixes this on Ubuntu

Apache2

Using the debian/ubuntu apache2 configuration structure :

# add NEKOPATH variable to apache2 environment vars
sudo grep "NEKOPATH" /etc/apache2/envvars || echo "export NEKOPATH=/usr/local/neko" >> /etc/apache2/envvars

# create a neko.conf in available modules
sudo test -f /etc/apache2/mods-available/neko.conf || echo "AddHandler neko-handler .n" >> /etc/apache2/mods-available/neko.conf

# create a neko.load in available modules
sudo test -f /etc/apache2/mods-available/neko.load || echo "LoadModule neko_module /usr/local/neko/mod_neko2.ndll" >> /etc/apache2/mods-available/neko.load

# enable neko module
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/neko.* /etc/apache2/mods-enabled

# add index.n to DirectoryIndex in apache2.conf
sudo grep "index.n" /etc/apache2/apache2.conf || cat /etc/apache2/apache2.conf | sed -r 's/^DirectoryIndex (.*?)/DirectoryIndex index.n \1/' > apache2.conf.tmp && cp apache2.conf.tmp /etc/apache2.conf 
sudo test -f apache2.conf.tmp && rm apache2.conf.tmp

# restart apache2
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Linux Debian (etch)

The complete build and install process looks like (may contains some minor errors) :

mkdir haxe
cd haxe

# download and compile haxe, you may require some development libraries 
# like libmysqlclient15-dev, zlib1g-dev, libsqlite3-dev, ... 
# and of course you require ocaml, ocaml-findlib and cvs
wget http://haxe.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/install.ml
ocaml install.ml

# install haxe in /usr/local
sudo mkdir /usr/local/haxe
sudo mkdir /usr/local/haxe/bin
sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/haxe/bin
sudo cp -r haxe/std /usr/local/haxe
sudo ln -s /usr/local/haxe/bin/haxe /usr/local/bin/haxe

# setup environment variables for haxe
sudo grep "HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH" /etc/environment || echo "export HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/haxe/std:." >> /etc/environment

Neko from backports.org

Download and install neko from Debian Backports

OSX

Building on Mac PPC

(Please list info here)

Building on Mac Intel

Building on Mac Intel requires an Intel build version of OCaml. You can download it from http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.10/ or install it via Macports with port install ocaml.

Once the local Intel build OCaml version is in place, proceed with downloading install.ml. Create a folder where you'd like the sources to be downloaded to, and copy the .ml file there. Open install.ml and comment out line 20: (* #load "unix.cma" *).

Don't directly run the file but compile it first, using ocamlc unix.cma install.ml. Next, run the compiled installer using $ ./a.out

After a successful build, the Haxe compiler will be in the bin folder.

In case you want to have the final std folder location other than /usr/lib/haxe/std/ or /usr/local/lib/haxe/std/ you need to change Plugin.class_path in main.ml to your preferred location and start over.

Creating a distribution

To have your local build packaged up for distribution you can use the PackageMaker project from this repository. Make sure to place the sources in a folder adjacent to your haxe build folder (i.e., if ../projects/haxe is where you placed install.ml or checked out the Haxe sources using CVS, than the installed package sources should be at ../projects/haxe-inst)

Be sure to modify the version numbers listed within the project file, and the INFO.txt file. Open haxe.pmproj with the PackageManager. Do a quick run-through through the PackageManager Interface Editor and resolve the hard-set paths on the background image, and the LICENCE.txt and INFO.txt files to your local paths. Once this maintenance is done, save the project but leave the PackageManager application without building the package.

Open a terminal window and go to the installer sources root folder. Type $ ./package . Your distribution should be ready (at haxe.pkg).

Creating a Universal distribution

Creating a Universal distribution only requires that you have a version of the Haxe compiler build for the opposite platform of your local build. So, if you build Haxe on Intel, ask someone on the list for the eqivalent PPC version - or vice versa. This way you'll end up with two versions of the Haxe compiler.

Open a terminal at the bin folder of your Haxe source folder. Rename haxe to either haxe_ppc or haxe_i386, depending on your platfrom. Next copy the haxe compiler for the opposite platform to the folder. Rename this file either haxe_i386 or haxe_ppc.

Run $ lipo -create -arch ppc haxe_ppc -arch i386 haxe_i386 -output haxe to have the two versions merged into one single Universal executable (haxe).

Continue creating your distribution as outlined at Creating a distribution. Don't worry about making haxelib and haxedoc Universal: they already, are since the underlying Neko binaries are.