We have a largish codebase and use the -minify flag when building for production.
Since v6 this has been broken though, as methods with the name ‘call’ get removed, as well as any references to these methods.
I have tried with Lime 5.6.0 & 5.9.1, both exhibit the same behaviour.
Also, I think might be the root cause of this issue:
It sounds similar to this issue:
Can you tell if adding DCE does it, or if it’s Google Closure? You can try openfl test html5 --dce full and see if it’s dead-code elimination, otherwise it’s during the minification process
EDIT: I guess you said -minify, not -final, so it would be Closure. We did update Closure to a newer version. You could try and see if a different version works better by swapping our version with another?
https://github.com/openfl/lime/commits/develop/templates/bin/compiler.jar
Yeah, works fine with older version of ‘compiler.jar’
I wonder if we could also consider giving ExternalInterface another method (such as call2) and making call an inline call to the real method
Just wanted to report that I had exactly the same problem, and that using the previous version of compiler.jar solved it.
Should I open an issue on github?
Turn out that passing --strict_mode_input false solves this problem, see https://github.com/openfl/openfl/issues/1827.
A PR with this and a few more minification fixes is here: https://github.com/openfl/lime/pull/1158
Awesome, thanks for the help! I think the assumption is that call is really a redundant call, but here have a real method called call
Thankful for your help 