I want to make a game with haxe. I am following my friend Travis’ tutorials but there are a few peccadillos I feel are worth noting. Here’s my experience getting going:

  1. Do not use Homebrew to install haxe on OS X. Use the downloadable installer. Here’s why. Download from here - not anywhere else.

  2. I could not find in the docs / tutorials / getting started’s any examples of actually running haxe or haxelib or whatever except for here. No one thinks explaining the command line interface is important - I guess everyone’s using IDE’s? Anyway, here’s my command:

     nme test /Users/you/path/to/project/project.nmml mac -debug -Dfdb

  3. Immediately got Standard Library not found :/ Fix by adding this to your shell script:

     export HAXE_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/haxe/std/:/usr/lib/haxe/lib/"

  4. libraries to install:

     haxelib install nme
 haxelib install flixel

  5. Next up:

     Error: No developer directory found at /Developer.

    Building for mac os x native. XCode doesn’t set up this directory any more when you install via the App Store. Solution here

     sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

  6. Crash!

     Couldn't set OpenGL mode:
 Sep 16 18:07:53 yourcomputer.home project[10076] Warning: CGDisplayBaseAddress is obsolete and returning NULL for display 0x7bd8d23f`

    Solution - in /project.nmml change this:

     <window width="0" height="0" fps="30" orientation="landscape" fullscreen="true" unless="target_flash" />

    to this:

     <window width="640" height="480" fps="30" orientation="landscape" resizable="true" unless="target_flash" />

    It’s a bug in SDL, as per this discussion

  7. Go to

     /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles

    and run

     git clone https://github.com/jdonaldson/HaXe.tmbundle.git

    to install the Haxe TextMate bundle. Don’t forget to tell TextMate to reload bundles.

After all that I finally got a compiling window.