MXMLC and 64bit JRE

Question

Are there any workarounds to get the Flex compiler to work with a 64bit JRE? If I use an MXMLC task in an Ant buildfile in Eclipse it works fine but if I try to use MXMLC fr

Answer 1

You can use any 64 bit Java but you need a batch file instead of the exe file to invoke java without the 32 bit stub. Create the bat files in the flex\bin folder.

mxmlc.bat:

@echo off
for  %%i in (%0) do set FLEX_HOME=%%~dpi..
java -jar "%FLEX_HOME%\lib\mxmlc.jar" +flexlib="%FLEX_HOME%/frameworks" %*

compc.bat:

@echo off
for  %%i in (%0) do set FLEX_HOME=%%~dpi..
java -jar "%FLEX_HOME%\lib\compc.jar" +flexlib="%FLEX_HOME%/frameworks" %*

Rinse and repeat for all other flex *.exe files.

Also add java options as needed, e.g.

java -Xmx2000m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -jar "%FLEX_HOME%\lib\... ...

Now use

• mxmlc.bat instead of mxmlx.exe
• compc.bat instead of compc.exe
• ...