Linux: Installing the Flex SDK
In my previous post, I complained about the installer for the debug version of Flash being broken. It turns out that the Flex SDK is broken too. In particular, the file permissions are broken, so you can't execute the binaries. Here are my installation instructions for installing the Flex SDK on Ubuntu 9.10:
Since OS X obeys file permissions just like Linux does, I wonder if this means that most of Adobe's Flex developers use Windows :-/
Update:The newest version of the Flex SDK uses DOS line endings, which won't work for shell scripts.
cd /usr/localNow, as your normal user, add /usr/local/flex_sdk_3.4/bin to your PATH.
mkdir flex_sdk_3.4
cd flex_sdk_3.4
unzip ~jj/Downloads/flex_sdk_3.4.0.9271_mpl.zip
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;
chmod 755 bin/*
apt-get install tofrodos
find bin \( \! -name '*.exe' -a -type f \) -exec dos2unix '{}' \;
Since OS X obeys file permissions just like Linux does, I wonder if this means that most of Adobe's Flex developers use Windows :-/
Update:The newest version of the Flex SDK uses DOS line endings, which won't work for shell scripts.
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$ /usr/local/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin/ant
Buildfile: build.xml
create-description:
templates-clean:
prepare-html-templates:
BUILD FAILED
/usr/local/flex_sdk_3.4/build.xml:1128: Warning: Could not find file /usr/local/flex_sdk_3.4/templates/html-templates/metadata/AC_OETags.js to copy.
Total time: 0 seconds
the last line did the trick for me:
find bin \( \! -name '*.exe' -a -type f \) -exec dos2unix '{}' \;
before that i was getting some strange "bad interpreter" message when trying to run mxmlc.
rajesh