Class not found : flixel.FlxGame

sabino

Good evening and nice to meet you,
After following the instructions to install Haxe and to install Flixel,
I decided to test the compiler by trying to build the hello world example.

And I get this error in the terminal
./Main.hx:3: characters 7-21 : Class not found : flixel.FlxGame

P.S. The command "haxelib upgrade" has already been executed.
Why can't my Haxe compiler recognize Flixel libraries?
Thanks

Zyrex

Can you write:
haxelib list

inside of the terminal and let me know what it says and also provide the code from Main.hx

sabino

Hello Zyrex, thanks for your care, I appreciate it.

Haxelib list
flixel-demos: [2.2.0]
flixel-ui: [2.1.0]
openfl: 3.6.1 [4.2.0]
flixel-addons: [2.1.0]
flixel: [4.1.1]
flixel-tools: [1.2.1]
lime: [3.2.1] 2.9.1
flixel-templates: [2.1.0]

The source file "Main.hx" is a default file created from a HaxeFlixel template.

package;
import flixel.FlxGame;
import openfl.Lib;
import openfl.display.Sprite;

class Main extends Sprite
{
public function new()
{
super();
addChild(new FlxGame(0, 0, MenuState));
}
}

Gama11

How are you trying to build the project? (command)

sabino

flixel tpl -n "HelloWorld"

P.S. To compile the source files, I just open the directory in the terminal and type:
haxe -swf Main.hx PlayState.hx AssetPaths.hx MenuState.hx

DleanJeans

I think he meant

lime test <target>

<target> can be flash, neko or html5

sabino

The command "lime" is not recognized by the terminal, even though lime is in the list of the Haxelib libraries. See above
If this error is unresolvable, I'll use another operating system.

DleanJeans

Try

haxelib run lime test <target>

DleanJeans

Or you can run this first

haxelib run lime setup

Then you can do that:

lime test <target>

sabino

haxelib run lime setup/test:

Called from ? line 1
Called from CommandLineTools.hx line 1430
Called from CommandLineTools.hx line 25
Called from a C function
Called from CommandLineTools.hx line 64
Called from CommandLineTools.hx line 1113
Called from /usr/lib/haxe/std/neko/_std/sys/io/File.hx line 30
Uncaught exception - [file_contents,/haxelib.json]

DleanJeans

Why there's /test:

haxelib run lime setup/test

If this still happens, try the first one, I'm sure it will work without any problems

sabino

P.S. I tried both haxelib run lime setup & haxelib run lime test

DleanJeans

First of all switch your version of OpenFl back to 3.6.1 and Lime to 2.9.1 since HaxeFlixel doesn't work with OpenFl 4 right now
In case you don't know how:

haxelib set openfl 3.6.1

sabino

I switched both OpenFL version and Lime version.
There's nothing to do.
I'll try using Windows 7.
Thanks anyway for your support.

DleanJeans

But what happened after you tried it again?

sabino

Nothing. The situation and the errors are the same as before.

DleanJeans

Check your lime folder in your Haxe installation path
http://community.openfl.org/t/error-automatically-installing-lime-uncaught-exception-file-contents-haxelib-json/193/3

Zyrex

I'm a bit confused as to why things aren't working, it shouldn't be this difficult. So lets start from from fresh and follow these steps:

Run the haxe uninstaller
Download haxe from the following link: http://haxe.org/download/
Run the installer
Go to command prompt and type in haxelib install flixel
When that's finished run haxelib run lime setup
I'm assuming you're running on windows so once that's finished run the following lime setup windows

At this point everything should be setup, so lets make sure by compiling the demo project Flappybalt

First we need the demos go back to command prompt and run haxelib install flixel-demos
Navigate to the demo directory. Assuming you installed on the default path this is C:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flixel-demos/2,2,0/Arcade/Flappybalt
Open this directory in command prompt or navigate to it using the following cmd cd C:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flixel-demos/2,2,0/Arcade/Flappybalt
Run lime test windows

Everything should work fine

sabino

[UPDATE]
I switched O.S. (it's still ubuntu-based, though);

Lime test commands works now. :thinking:
But it's still impossible to compile using haxe -swf <sources.hx>
Maybe it's not the way the compiler should be used? :confused:

Zyrex

@sabino Did you try starting from fresh?

sabino

What do you mean "fresh"? :confused:
I followed the official instructions to install Haxe and Flixel, on another OS.

Meanwhile, I can start programming using HaxeFlixel thanks to lime test neko.
I appreciate it :slight_smile:
And thanks to the friendly community.

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