Haxe is an open source toolkit that allows you to easily build cross-platform tools and applications that target many mainstream platforms. The Haxe toolkit includes:
- The Haxe programming language, a modern, high-level, strictly-typed programming language
- The Haxe cross-compiler, a state-of-the-art, lightning-speed compiler for many targets
- The Haxe standard library, a complete, cross-platform library of common functionality
Haxe allows you to compile for the following targets:
- C++
- C#
- Flash
- Java
- JavaScript
- NekoVM
- PHP
You can try Haxe directly from your browser at try.haxe.org!
For more information about Haxe, head to the offical Haxe website.
The Haxe project has several licenses, covering different parts of the projects.
- The Haxe compiler is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
- The Haxe libraries are released under a "two-clause" BSD license.
- The Neko runtime is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or any later version.
For the complete Haxe licenses, please see http://haxe.org/doc/license or doc/LICENSE.txt.
The latest stable release is Haxe v3.0.1. Pre-built binaries are available for your platform:
Automated development builds are available from build.haxe.org.
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Clone the repository using git. Be sure to initialize and fetch the submodules.
git clone --recursive git://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe.git cd haxe
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Follow the documentation on building Haxe for your platform.
For information on on using Haxe, consult the Haxe documentation:
- Haxe introduction, an introduction to the Haxe toolkit
- Haxe language reference, an overview of the Haxe programming language
- Haxe API, a reference for the Haxe standard and native APIs
- Haxelib, a repository of Haxe libraries for a variety of needs
You can get help and talk with fellow Haxers from around the world via:
- the official Haxe Google Group
- the Haxe IRC chatroom, #haxe on chat.freenode.net