Is there a problem with using "air SDK" to package "openfl"?

Haxe
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Hello everyone, I have looked at the page for Air packaging:

I have already packaged the “apk” and “win exe complete program”

@joshtynjala

But I don’t know how to package the “. air installation package” and “. exe installation package”?

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Starting in Lime 8.4, a new -shared option will make it possible create an .air package instead of a “captive runtime” bundle (captive runtime is the default, and that’s usually the option that people prefer to use for modern apps).

There does not currently appear to be a way to package what the AIR SDK calls a “native desktop installer” with OpenFL. However, this package target is discouraged in the AIR SDK documentation because it uses the shared runtime, but it can no longer install the shared runtime and your app from a single package, like it could back in the days when Adobe maintained the AIR SDK.

For AIR apps, I strongly recommend packaging a captive runtime bundle and creating your own installer for it.

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If you would like to create a Windows installer, there are open source programs that make it pretty easy.

I haven’t personally used Inno Setup, but I’ve heard very good things about it from other developers.

NSIS is a decent option that I sometimes use.

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@joshtynjala

Lime is currently 8.3, it seems that the release of Lime8.4 will take some time

Does the ‘. air package’ require ‘lime 8.4’? It seems that it will take some more time?

I noticed that you mentioned earlier that you do not recommend using the ‘air SDK’ to release the ‘. exe’ installation package? Did the release notes for the ‘Air SDK’ say that?

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Perhaps @joshtynjala is alluding to this:

  • native — a native desktop installer. The type of file produced is the native installation format of the operating system on which the command is run. Note that the installer does not include the AIR runtime, and the latest AIR runtimes cannot be downloaded by the installers from AIR 33 onwards, so this format is strongly discouraged.
    • EXE — Windows
    • DMG — Mac
    • DEB — Ubuntu Linux (AIR 2.6 or earlier)
    • RPM — Fedora or OpenSuse Linux (AIR 2.6 or earlier)
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