incorrect error message: "Please use a Haxe configuration that targets HashLink (found target "js" instead)."

[tromero]

I set up my compile hxml to build both hl and js at the same time. It resulted in the error: Please use a Haxe configuration that targets HashLink (found target "js" instead)., unless i comment out my js build args.

This is probably not the best approach (i haven't figured out a way to make the config change which target gets built other than having two compile hxml files, recommendations would be appreciated), but seems like the debugger should have worked with this simple setup.

my compile.hxml looks like this:

--class-path src
-lib heaps
--dce full

--each

# desktop
-lib hldx
# -lib hlsdl
-hl bin/stickychunks.hl
-main Main
-debug

--next

# web
-js bin/stickychunks.js
-main Main
-debug

and launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "chrome",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Chrome against localhost",
            "url": "file://${workspaceFolder}/index.html",
            "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "preLaunchTask": {
                "type" : "haxe",
                "args" : "active configuration"
            }
        }
        ,
        {
            "name": "HashLink",
            "request": "launch",
            "type": "hl",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "preLaunchTask": {
                "type": "haxe",
                "target" : "${workspaceFolder}/bin/stickychunks.hl",
                "args": "active configuration"
            }
        }
    ]
}

[tromero]

The issue also does not occur if the .hl file is the last output in compile.hxml.

[jrdoughty]

Did this ever get resolved, I have it as well

[ncannasse]

You can instead have:

• a common.hxml file
• a compile_hl.hxml and compile_js.hxml that both have common.hxml as their first line, thus having the same definitions in common.
• you can switch between compile_hs and compile_js in the blue bar at the bottom of VSCode to switch compilation configuration.