I installed the trial version of Flash Builder and used it for a while. After the trial period expired, I decided not to buy it because this is only a hobby project and even the "Standard" version costs several $100. But the command line compiler, as I understand it, is part of the open-source Apache FLEX project, so I should be able to use that -- I hope.
I spent about 3/4 of my working life writing code with a text editor (or on punch cards), assembling or compiling it, testing it, fixing whatever errors shoed up, rinse, repeat. I don't see any reason I can't do that with FLEX.
However, when I try to run the compiler from the command line, I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\barry\bin\flex\mxml
c.jar (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
Has anybody else successfully run the mxmlc compiler from the command line?