[Gnash-dev] as3compile

[Matthias Kramm]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Matthias Kramm <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Alright! A real AS3.0 compiler would be great.  Right now Gnash uses
> > Haxe for testing AVM2, which is OK, but not nearly as good for testing
> > as a real compiler.  How much progress have you made on the AS3.0
> > compiler?
>
> I guess a first version which can do basic stuff like expression
> evaluation, class definitions, functions, function calls etc. 
> will be finished in a few weeks.

Gee. So much for time estimation in open source projects. :)

Anyway, just wanted to give you guys a heads-up that the current
version of the ActionScript 3.0 compiler (as3compile), (which is
part of the development snapshot at http://www.swftools.org/download.html)
is approaching a stable state, and will be included 
in the next official release.
It's a raw compiler (no embedding stuff yet- I plan to
integrate support for fonts and bitmaps though), and it now can compile
most of all the ActionScript programs I came across so far, except
any that use inline XML or namespaces. (I'm working on the latter
right now)
Try it out and let me know what you think!

Greetings

Matthias