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Within the newly extracted files, locate the file haxesetup.exe and double - click it. You should then be
presented with an information dialog, as shown in Figure 2 - 2 :
Figure 2-2
And that ??™ s it! You can now start creating your haXe applications. The haxesetup.exe file created a system
environment variable so that you can call the haXe executables no matter where you are within a
command window. No other steps are needed to make use of haXe, so if you ??™ re itching to get started,
you can now skip to the first example on how to build and compile a haXe application.
Manually Installing haXe on Linux
Unlike the Windows installation, Linux requires a slightly different route. As with most Linux
applications, installing haXe requires that you first download the latest source from a CVS repository.
Once this is done, you then compile the sources with Objective Caml. Most distributions of Linux
already come with versions of CVS and Objective Caml that you can use, though you can check to see if
either already exists on your system by entering the following:
> cvs --help
> ocaml --help
If you receive text stating that the command cvs or ocaml is unknown between each line, then have a
look on your Linux distribution CD for an installable package of these two programs.
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