Can “win7” use “haxe openfl”?
For reference, Microsoft officially stopped supporting Windows 7 in January 2020. That’s over five and a half years ago.
We don’t actively test on Windows 7 anymore. It might work, or it might not. You’ll just need to try it. Post your results here, including which Haxe, HXCPP, Lime, and OpenFL versions that you tried. It could help others, if they have the same question in the future.
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I’m not sure what the context of the question is. Eg: is it a question of general OS support, or is this a specific computer you’re hoping to run this on?
I will offer that Haxe OpenFL runs on Linux, which if you have any control over it, is likely a better option than the now unsupported (by Microsoft) Windows 7.
I’m entirely Linux based on my workstations. I can also cross-compile to Windows targets, so long as I’m using the latest git version of hxcpp and have mingw-w64-gcc installed. No arm twisting here, just relaying what’s possible. I know you use Adobe Animate, which will likely not run (easily) under Linux.
To install the git version of hxcpp (and the principle applies to all Haxe library git repos):
haxelib git hxcpp https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxcpp.git
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Yes, Haxe works fine on Windows 7.
Microsoft blocks Windows 7 users from installing Visual Studio online. You can install an offline version , such as Visual Studio 2015.
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A few days ago, I installed the “Win7 system”.
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‘haxe’ successfully installed
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The old version of ‘vscode’ has been successfully installed, but the new version of ‘vscode’ does not support ‘win7’
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The installation of the ‘VSCode OpenFL’ plugin has been successful
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Strangely, the ‘as3’ plugin cannot be installed
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When I execute ‘lime test html5’
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Terminal error, it appears that ‘nodejs’ needs to be installed
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I searched for several ‘nodejs’ but none of them support’ win7 ’
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But you can export ‘neko’
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I didn’t test the ‘Windows’ target because I just installed’ Win7 ’
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I haven’t installed the ‘C++’ environment yet
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I have found that many development environments no longer support “Win7”
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So I installed “Win10” again
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I don’t understand English, I translate sentence by sentence
I have used haxe on windows7 and window8 preview, and attended a microsoft dev free training course at the time, they helped me compile haxe js to run as a haxe win8 app.. the microsoft engineer was very interested in haxe.. I later realised because internally he had been using or was aware of typescript a language that had not yet been released to the public, but had similarities!
Haxe evolved from 2006 an the first min conference was 2011/2012, it is not corporate tool so in theory it can support some quite old os systems with some changing flags, I have used haxe on leopard, snowy leopard, tiger, lion OS. Really it is more down to your effort with older tools, the limitations may be down to what version of Ocaml you can get running on an old OS and what version current haxe requires and Openfl is complex so you may need work for build tools etc.
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I left windows a long time ago, I like mac pro’s laptops as if you get a good 15" one with high end spec they often last with repairs close on a decade, and I like textmate. But if you can pick up a good second hand mac and get linux running on it and most of the hardware drivers running then it is a good solution. Apple are good but they are not open enough for me.
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You can download and use developer versions of windows on virtualBox to run on a mac. In fact that is how I used win7/8. Also likely possible to run on a linux machine in a similar way…
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