Looks fairly easy, thx for the instructions.

So ... Alchemy is a designer tool?

Thanks for reading!

I wouldn't really say it's a designer tool, but it's a tool for anyone that wants to compile C/C++ libraries into usable SWCs.

after installing cygwin as you describe, when I execute the ./config command I get ERROR: "perl" not available. I reinstalled the Perl package and restarted the pc and get the same thing. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks for the article. Really like to get this up and running.

Hi Devon, I really can't say for sure what's happening. My first instinct would be to completely remove cygwin from my computer, and restart the process making sure the Perl package is selected, along with zip and gcc. Maybe even try installing from a different mirror, and keep an eye on the install process for any errors.

to Devon... I haven't followed this tutorial yet, just the instructions from Adobe. After installing Cygwin on WinXP I tried to verify installation by running gcc but got a command not found error. I assumed I had made a mistake, but on looking through the installed libraries it showed gcc was there. I thought I'd have to uninstall/reinstall Cygwin, and was worried I'd be left with a corrupt installation. I fiddled around a bit, selected/deselected gcc and related components, rebooted, gave it another try and found it worked ok. Perhaps it was the reboot, as I didn't change anything.

alc-on; command is not running, actually i'm just writing, {alc-on;} and its say command don't exit. Could you plz tell me the reason

Thanks for the write up.

@Damon & @Graham Thank you for the suggestions, but it turns out I made a stupid mistake and included a space in the directory name that contained my Flex SDK. Curse Windows for allowing such bad habits. Only admitting such a silly user error in case anyone else does the same. Thanks again for the help and for this article.

I'm seriously expecting that next article of Alchemy, creating the first alchemy project and so..

I expect to see sooner than later that second article about Alchemy, sounds at least as interesting as this first one

Hi Pablo, thanks for reading. I haven't had the time to start the second article yet, but there will be one in due time!

I had a few issues getting things set up, and I'm still not quite there. To get to where I am though, I had to edit the /etc/passwd file and set my ID from 1000 to 544 so I could get permissions to the files. (I'm running Vista 64, but I don't know if that matters.)

I had to modify my /etc/profile to place the source command _after_ setting up the path, since the file being sourced needed a valid path to do its thing.

I've been able to compile stringecho.c to stringecho.swc (but my output only showed the warning, nothing else).

Where I'm stuck: the past part... the mxmlc command. When I try this, I'm given an error indicating that the JRE cannot be found, though I've installed it already. I've closed and restarted cygwin (the bash shell, that is), but it hasn't picked up what it needs (and even in a normal dos window, there are no environment variables I might expect, like CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME. I tried setting those two within cygwin, but it didn't change anything.

really really cool
looking forward to part 2, curious what it will bring :)

Thanks for this Damon.
I seem to have gone through with no problems except that I get no trace output from the swf. I'm using the debug players and have tested on firefox, chrome, and ie, with no luck. Any ideas?

Thanks
Dave

My alias' are not being created properly.
The installation seems to go smoothly (no errors, everything looks the same as yours) until I get to the step where I need to use:
alc-on;
at which point I get:
bash: alc-on: command not found

Everything seems to have worked, so I am not sure where the problems is occurring. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is my alchemy-setup...I'm not sure if it will help.
Thanks again.

#
# NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file in
# accordance with the terms of the Adobe license agreement accompanying it.
# If you have received this file from a source other than Adobe, then your use,
# modification, or distribution of it requires the prior written permission of Adobe.
#

# Add Alchemy settings to your environment
export ALCHEMY_HOME=/cygdrive/c/alchemy/alch
export ALCHEMY_VER=0.4a
export PATH=$ALCHEMY_HOME/bin:$PATH
export ASC=$ALCHEMY_HOME/bin/asc.jar
export SWFBRIDGE=$ALCHEMY_HOME/bin/swfbridge.exe

# Set this variable if you do not want to use the adl executable from your path
export ADL=/cygdrive/c/flex/adl (or adl.exe)

# Uncomment this if you want to leave intermediate build products around for debugging
# Leave this off if you are not actively debugging as these can be large
#export ACHACKS_TMPS=1

# Uncomment this to turn on logging when building with achacks
#export LOG=1

# Uncomment this as set the LOGLEVEL to enable additional runtime logging
# Higher values mean more information is logged. 1, 2, 3 are defined currently.
# NOTE This must be set when your project is compiled
#export LOGLEVEL=1

# These are helper functions
alias alc-home='cd $ALCHEMY_HOME'
alias alc-on='export PRE_ALCHEMY_PATH=$PATH; export PATH=$ALCHEMY_HOME/achacks:$PATH'
alias alc-off='export PATH=$PRE_ALCHEMY_PATH'

when trying to run the ./config I get an Error: "java" not found.
I have jre6 installed and have rebooted and still get the error.
Please help this is driving me nuts.

hi,

thanks for your post. Can we use sound api in c++ for recording the microphone input on local hard disk

Thanks,

Bhanu

No need to answer my question above.
This line:
export ADL=/cygdrive/c/flex/adl (or adl.exe)

Obviously needed the "(or adl.exe)" removed....

Great tutorial.

Hi, Can you tell me how to compile multiple c source files in alchemy?
My alchemy was installed and the stringecho.c example is running well.
Thanks,
Leo

"Chris said:
when trying to run the ./config I get an Error: "java" not found.
I have jre6 installed and have rebooted and still get the error.
Please help this is driving me nuts."

I'm stuck in this problem too,looking forward for helping!

ditto Chris and Lync. I've installed alchemy using this tutorial before, which is excellent.

Trying on a different machine I get:
ERROR: "java" not available ... upon running ./config.

My system drive letter is oddly "G", so I though maybe it was unable to find the java RE in it's default location? "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6" ?

I tried adding my weird java path to the PATH variable.. but no dice. I don't really know what I'm doing. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hey all, I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to diving deeper into Alchemy. I've been so busy the past couple of months I've barely come up to breath.

I will continue this series, I just need to find the time. I'll comment back here when I do make the post so that everyone is notified.

Thanks everyone!

Damon

Thanks for writing this. The part where you instruct to replace

export ASC=$(cygpath -m -s -p $ALCHEMY_HOME/bin/asc.jar)
with
export ASC=$ALCHEMY_HOME/bin/asc.jar

really saved me some time.

Thanks

Tim