May 22 2007

Build and compile AS3, Flex2 and Apollo applications in Eclipse on Mac OS X

Tag: Adobe AIR, FlexSven Dens @ 12:42 pm

So today I wanted to compile a simple “Hello World” app and package it as an .air-file for installation in Adobe Apollo on my Mac…

This can already be done in FlashDevelop - a great editor, but it only runs on Windows - but I couldn’t yet find a source telling me how to do it from Eclipse or any other editor that runs on OS X. So it was time to roll-up my sleeves and figure out a way to do it.
Didn’t turn out to be hard at all, using ANT and starting off from the nice Apollo ANT-template for FlashDevelop built by Ryan Taylor.

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