What Is AS3Compile?

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∟What Is AS3Compile?

This section describes what is AS3Compile - A stand alone compiler for ActionScript 3.0 developed by the SWFTools team for generating SWF applications.

What Is AS3Compile? as3compile is a stand alone compiler for ActionScript 3.0 developed by the SWFTools team for generating SWF applications. It aims to be compatible with Adobe's Flex compiler.

If you want to try AS3Compile, you need to download and install SWFTools from www.swftools.org as described in the previous chapter.

Here is the manual page of AS3Compile 0.9.1:

NAME
   as3compile - Compile .as ActionScript 3.0 files to swf.

Synopsis
   as3compile file.as [-o file.swf]

DESCRIPTION
   Compiles a file written in ActionScript 3.0 to a SWF file.

OPTIONS

   -C, --cgi
      Output to stdout (for use in CGI environments)
   
   -R, --resolve
      This flag will cause the compiler to try filenames like 
      "FooBar.as" for classes named "FooBar".
   
   -D, --define namespace::variable
      Set a compile time variable (for doing conditional compilation)
   
   -X, --width
      Set target SWF width
   
   -Y, --height
      Set target SWF width
   
   -r, --rate
      Set target SWF framerate
   
   -M, --mainclass
      Set the name of the main class (extending 
      flash.display.MovieClip)
   
   -l, --library file
      Include library file file. <file> can be an .abc or .swf file.
   
   -I, --include dir
      Add additional include dir dir.
   
   -N, --local-with-network
      Make output file "local with networking"
   
   -L, --local-with-filesystem
      Make output file "local with filesystem"
   
   -T, --flashversion num
      num must be >= 9.
   
   -o, --output filename
      Set output file to filename.
   
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AUTHOR
   Matthias Kramm <kramm@quiss.org>