Trouble understanding how to use build.hxml
I'm building a game using the HaxeFlixel framework. I'm using Sublime Text as my IED. I'm also following this as my first program so I have run flixel tpl -n "HelloWorld" to setup my project.
My folder structure looks like this:
My build.hxml looks like this:
#-main source/MenuState
#-neko bin/text.n
#lime test neko
-main Main.hx
-neko Test.n
#-cmd neko Test.n
My research has included:
Youtube video starting at 7:22
If someone could show me what I'm doing wrong and explain the solution I would be so happy as this has taken a few hours of my time.
You're applying the wrong solution to the problem :)
build.hxml is essentially a file with multiple arguments that haxe should note while compiling. When compiling haxe, you could run haxe -x SomeHaxeFile.hx. However - this is the solution for compiling raw haxe. Different haxe library's ask to be compiled in their own ways, as, if they are complex enough (ie - haxeflixel), there are lots of things running in the background of compilation, for example putting assets like images into the build.
Haxeflixels build method is through limes build system. So, to run on neko, you would type into terminal lime test neko. This is the best way to compile haxeflixel games, and is shown in the official haxeflixel guide. http://haxeflixel.com/documentation/hello-world-command-line/
This command should be ran in the folder with project.xml, as that file contains the information haxeflixel (and thus haxe) needs to build. You can ignore hxml files while working with haxeflixel.