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 http://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 doc/LICENSE.txt.

Installing Haxe

The latest stable release is Haxe v3.0. Pre-built binaries are available for your platform:

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

Building from source

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

   git clone git://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe.git
   cd haxe
   git submodule init
   git submodule update
   

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

The 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