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Haxe C Bridge Unit Test

app.c interacts with a haxe generated shared library compiled with build-library.hxml

Compiling

I've included a makefile for compiling on macOS (make -f makefile.mac), however the example is minimal – just a single C file and shared library so should work with any C toolchain or platform, to compile from scratch:

Requirements:

• haxe 4.2
• hxcpp 4.2.*

Steps:

• Install hxcpp dependency: haxelib install build-library.hxml (this will install hxcpp to .haxelib/)

• Compile the haxe code into a dynamic library: haxe build-library.hxml, this will generate a shared library in haxe-bin/ ready for embedding in a native application

• Compile app.c with your favorite C compiler and link it to the shared library generated by hxcpp

  For macOS this is

   # compile app.c to 'main` executable and link with shared library
   clang app.c -o main haxe-bin/Main-debug.dylib
   # after compiling you need to tell app where it can find the shared library at runtime
   install_name_tool -change Main-debug.dylib @executable_path/haxe-bin/Main-debug.dylib app

  For linux this might be something like

   # compile app.c to 'main` executable and link with shared library
   gcc app.c -o main haxe-bin/Main-debug.so -Wl,-rpath,haxe-bin/

  And run with ./app