How do you compile Flex-dependent classes with ASC?

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February 10, 2009
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Hi,

I've been trying unsuccessfully for most of the evening to compile a .as file that relies on mx.collections.ListCollectionView using asc. I figured I could just import the Flex framework SWCs from the command line with asc, but asc doesn't seem to respect SWCs - it only seems to respect .abc files.

So, I've spent most of my time trying to compile the Flex framework into a single .abc file that I can import whenever I want to compile a class that relies on Flex. I figured I could make a base .as file with include statements for all of the Flex .as files (copying the approach I saw for files like builtin.as) and compile that, but all I seem to get are compiler errors - mostly "[Compiler] Error #1181: Forward reference to base class (base class name)."

I have a feeling I'm doing this completely the wrong way. I'd very much appreciate any assistance that anybody can offer me.

Thanks,

- max

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_Maxim_Porges_Author

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Thanks Robin - I've actually got a good discussion going with the guys on the Tamarin mailing list who suggested the same thing. The problem is exactly what you described (as I suspected), but the issue is that there are hundreds of classes in Flex and figuring out the import order could take ages. I was hoping that the asc compiler would be smart enough to figure this out and set up the order, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Erik Tierney suggested that I just compile a SWF the old-fashioned way and use abcdump to get the ABC code if I want to look at it. I'll probably just do that.

Thanks,

- max

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How do you compile Flex-dependent classes with ASC?

Maxim,

have you tried changing the order of your imports? I couldn't find documentation for that error but it sounds like you have a class that inherits from another that isn't defined yet (a quick look at the source seems to concur). Try moving the import for the base class right above the one that is giving the error and see if you don't get a different error. You might have to do a few times before it works.

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_Robin_Berjon_

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Maxim,

have you tried changing the order of your imports? I couldn't find documentation for that error but it sounds like you have a class that inherits from another that isn't defined yet (a quick look at the source seems to concur). Try moving the import for the base class right above the one that is giving the error and see if you don't get a different error. You might have to do a few times before it works.

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_Maxim_Porges_Author

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Alex,

Yes, I am familiar with the regular command line tools for the SDK. That is not the issue. I need to create .abc files since I'm working on a bytecode instrumentation project.

One option would be to create SWFs with the regular SDK tools and crack them to pull out the bytecode (there's an open source project called SwfUtils that does just that), but I'd like to solve the mystery with how to do this with asc.

If anybody can assist with the original question, that would be great.

Thanks,

- max

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