INSTALL SWFMILL ON UBUNTU 7.10
First download the swfmill package (I used the 0.2.12 package and downloaded the Linux source files) from http://www.swfmill.org. Unpack the files and open a terminal. Navigate to the directory in which the files have been unpacked using the command line. Make sure you have installed the libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libpng12-dev packages or install them now using Synaptic. Now use the holy trinity of compiling software on *nix:
First:
./configure
Second:
make
Third:
sudo make install
Now swfmill should be properly installed. Check this by typing:
swfmill -h
It should show you the possible options with sfwmill.
ERROR?
If you get an error message such as: ‘ swfmill: error while loading shared libraries: libswft.so.0: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory’ then there is probably an issue with swfmill not finding a dynamic library due to the path not being set. According to this message on the swfmill mailinglist you can fix this by running:
sudo /sbin/ldconfig -v
In my case this solved the issue. Questions, remarks? feel free to leave a comment.
Thanks for this document. It rocks. Read it http://build2be.com/en/content/installing-swfmill-and-finding-your-friends
No problem. Good to hear it was useful for you.
Thank you ! Easy to follow and it works for me too
@Estelle
Good to hear.
Thanks mate. I’ve been looking for this kind of documents about Eclipse and AMES for Linux that are easy to follow. Still haven’t found that much.
Workd for me.
Bjorn,
I faced the exact same error you have mentioned and your fix solved the issue. Thanks a tonne!
Hope this will nudge me to create some cool games in Haxe
Cheers,
Arun
Hi ,
I tried to install the samHaxe which is an alternative to swfmill and it is giving the same error and using the command /sbin/ldconfig -v displays all the libraries under /usr/lib but it not solved the error.
Help is appreciated in this .
Sorry Praveen but I haven’t used samHaxe yet and I am midst a lot of deadlines so it will take some time before I can check it out. So for now I won’t be able to help you out. I suggest contacting the authors of samHaxe.
Regards, BjornW