HaxeFoundation.haxe

Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit

Haxe is an open source toolkit that allows you to easily build cross-platform tools and applications that target many mainstream platforms. The Haxe toolkit includes:

• The Haxe programming language, a modern, high-level, strictly-typed programming language
• The Haxe cross-compiler, a state-of-the-art, lightning-speed compiler for many targets
• The Haxe standard library, a complete, cross-platform library of common functionality

Haxe allows you to compile for the following targets:

• C++
• C#
• Flash
• Java
• JavaScript
• NekoVM
• PHP

You can try Haxe directly from your browser at try.haxe.org!

For more information about Haxe, head to the offical Haxe website.

License

The Haxe project has several licenses, covering different parts of the projects.

• The Haxe compiler is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
• The Haxe libraries are released under a "two-clause" BSD license.
• The Neko runtime is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or any later version.

For the complete Haxe licenses, please see http://haxe.org/doc/license or extra/LICENSE.txt.

Installing Haxe

The latest stable release is Haxe v3.1.2. Pre-built binaries are available for your platform:

• Windows installer
• Windows binaries
• OSX installer
• OSX binaries
• Linux 32-bit binaries
• Linux 64-bit binaries

Automated development builds are available from build.haxe.org.

Building from source

1. Clone the repository using git. Be sure to initialize and fetch the submodules.

   git clone --recursive git://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe.git
   cd haxe
   

2. Follow the documentation on building Haxe for your platform.

Using Haxe

For information on on using Haxe, consult the Haxe documentation:

• Haxe introduction, an introduction to the Haxe toolkit
• Haxe language reference, an overview of the Haxe programming language
• Haxe API, a reference for the Haxe standard and native APIs
• Haxelib, a repository of Haxe libraries for a variety of needs

Community

You can get help and talk with fellow Haxers from around the world via:

• the official Haxe Google Group
• the Haxe IRC chatroom, #haxe on chat.freenode.net