Can't build with Haxe 3.2.1 and NekoVM 2.1.0 on Linux

[FrancisBourre]

From @Sanva on December 8, 2016 12:54

Hi!

I'm into trying hexMachina, but when I try to compile this Hello World example it simply doesn't work:

/hexMachina-HelloWorld $ haxe build/build.hxml -js bin/HelloWorld.js
/usr/share/haxe/std/neko/_std/EReg.hx:33: characters 11-61 : Unsupported escaped char '{'
<builtin>:1: character 0 : Called from
/usr/share/haxe/std/neko/_std/EReg.hx:22: lines 22-204 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/preprocess/Preprocessor.hx:9: characters 26-37 : Called from
<builtin>:1: character 0 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/preprocess/Preprocessor.hx:6: lines 6-59 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/preprocess/MacroPreprocessor.hx:21: characters 22-40 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/xml/XmlDSLParser.hx:41: characters 13-72 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/xml/XmlDSLParser.hx:29: characters 2-95 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/xml/XmlCompiler.hx:522: characters 22-99 : Called from
/home/v/haxelib/hexioc/0,10,0/src/hex/compiler/parser/xml/XmlCompiler.hx:588: characters 9-79 : Called from
./src/Main.hx:20: characters 2-56 : Called from
Aborted

Maybe an issue with current Haxe version or something like that? Maybe it won't compile on Linux?

Copied from original issue: DoclerLabs/hexMachina-HelloWorld#2

[FrancisBourre]

From @vistyanpeter on December 9, 2016 8:38

Hello Sanva,

I have made a quick test on Windows environment with the following versions and I can confirm that all the following options just build fine for me:

Haxe 3.2.1 with Neko 2.0.0 Haxe 3.2.1 with Neko 2.1.0 Haxe 3.4.0.rc1 with Neko 2.0.0 Haxe 3.3.0.rc1 with Neko 2.1.0 ( this is our current combination we use )

Unfortunately we have no option to try it on Linux ( We are Windows/OSX guys ), therefore your best shot might be to test your build with different Haxe and Neko versions together. If the issue still persist the problem might be on the Linux environment.

I hope it helps. Good luck, and let us know how is that going...

Bests, Peter

[FrancisBourre]

From @st3veV on December 9, 2016 9:1

I can reproduce it in the ubuntu subsystem on windows 10... I'll do some debugging.

[FrancisBourre]

From @Sanva on December 9, 2016 10:33

Hi again,

You may or may not have seen this already, but just in case, this may be related to https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/issues/4625#issuecomment-154029187

But the thing is that the solution proposed —the manual link ln -s /usr/lib/libneko.so.0 /usr/lib/libneko.so—does not have sense in my system, I only have /usr/lib/libneko.so.2 and /usr/lib/libneko.so.2.1.0, with the first one being a link pointing to the later.

By the way, my Haxe 3.2.1 and NekoVM 2.1.0 are simply installed from official Haxe PPA.

[FrancisBourre]

From @st3veV on December 9, 2016 11:49

It's fixed now in the code and it should work everywhere. Very likely fix will get properly released with 0.12.0 version but you can use the develop branch of hexIoC

[Sanva]

Yes, I can compile it now —using, as you've suggested, the develop branch of hexIoC.