Once you have more than one project you’re building in Haxe, you tend to run into situations where you use different versions of dependencies. Often you can get away with using the latest version on every project, but sometimes there are compatibility breaks, and you need different projects to use different versions.
There is a work-in-progress issue for Haxelib to get support for per-project repositories. Until that is finished, here is what I do:
cd ~/workspace/project1/
mkdir haxelibs
haxelib setup haxelibs
haxelib install all
And then when I switch between projects:
cd ~/workspace/project2/
haxelib setup haxelibs
What this does:
- Switch to your current project
- Create a folder to store all of your haxelibs for this project in
- Set haxelib to use that folder (and when I switch to a different project, I’ll use a different local folder).
- Install all the dependencies for this project.
Doing this means that each project can have it’s own dependencies, and upgrading a library in one project doesn’t break the compile on another project.
Hopefully that helps someone else, and hopefully the built in support comes soon!