UPDATE: Flash Builder 4 (the new version of Flex Builder) officially supports Eclipse 3.5. Download Flash Builder 4.
I recently tried to upgrade to Eclipse 3.5 on my Ubuntu Linux desktop. Unfortunately this caused some problems with the Flex Builder 3 for Linux alpha 4. According to the stack traces in Eclipse the main problems seemed to stem from the com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.compiler.internal.ProblemManager class. So I decided to re-write that class from scratch to see if I could make the problems go away. My new implementation of ProblemManager seems to have fixed the issues that I was seeing. I’ve only tested this on Linux so I’m not sure if it will fix any problems on Mac or Windows. Here are the instructions for fixing the problems with Flex Builder 3 on Eclipse 3.5 on Linux:
- Make sure you have installed Eclipse 3.5 and the Flex Builder 4 for Linux alpha 4
- Download the ProblemManager patch
- Unzip the ProblemManager patch file
- Locate where Flex Builder is installed – in my case: ~/flex_stuff/Adobe_Flex_Builder_Linux
- Update the com/adobe/flexbuilder/project/compiler/internal/ProblemManager.class file in <Flex Builder Install Location>/eclipse/plugins/com.adobe.flexbuilder.project_3.0.204732/zornproject.jar with the file extracted from the patch
- Start Eclipse 3.5
- Smile!
UPDATE: Instructions for Windows were posted on InsideRIA by Mike Slinn. Thanks Mike!
So far this works for me. But I’m sure there are some problems I haven’t discovered with it yet. So please let me know if you have any problems. Also if someone wants to check this on Windows or Mac let me know if it works there. If not then feel free to update the ProblemManager.java class so that it does work.
DISCLAIMER: This patch is totally unsupported by Adobe. Use at your own risk.
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Dear Professor. James,
I would be one of the idiot student of your whole list, who got passed, i still couldn’t make it done yet after 7 days of try.
Confuse:
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“UPDATE: Flash Builder 4 (the new version of Flex Builder) officially supports Eclipse 3.5. Download Flash Builder 4.”
1. I dont see they got linux alpha 4 to download Flex Builder? new url: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash_builder
2. Fedora 12, i got eclipse Version: 3.5.1
Build id: M20090917-0800
Also i got Aptana latest and greatest with Flex Builder
Question:
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Aptana eclipse we are talking here or Real eclipse from eclipse site we are talking here?
Can you please point me a step by step kindly?
Many thanks, thanks in advance
Thank you
Jony
The Linux alpha has not been updated for Eclipse 3.5 / 3.6 nor has it been updated for Flex 4. I highly recommend IntelliJ or some other tool that has real Flex support on Linux. I’ve switch to IntelliJ.
@James: Please look this two link, i am afraid why its not working?
My tools:
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1. Eclipse Version: 3.5.1, Build id: M20090917-0800
2. Flex Builder latest and greatest
3. Fedora 12
4. Your guide
Failed:
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Screen shot: http://i.imgur.com/AvizW.png
Steps i did: http://gist.github.com/493968
Please advice..
Thank you
You also need to follow these instructions:
http://blog.danyul.id.au/?p=68
Fun stuff! I’ve actually switched to IntelliJ. :)
For other Linux users…
I have been battling along with the alpha releases for flexbuilder 3 on Linux for some time. However a recent project in Flex4 has forced me to look for another solution.
I would like to try IntelliJ but I haven’t got the cash at the moment so i’ve tried fb4linux (http://code.google.com/p/fb4linux/).
It obviously lacks many of the features in Flashbuilder but since for my day to day stuff i am basically only interested in a decent editor (code completion, automatic management of imports, hints etc) and debugger, this does the trick.
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