and getting it to work together.. seems like people have a lot of issues with this, so here are the steps you have to take.

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This way of installing haXe is pretty bad and should be avoided, but it made it easy swapping haXe versions fast.
I use the haXe version 1.19 together with the Google Maps Flash API.

Lets first get haXe and the Googles Flash API

root@devbox:/usr/local/src$ mkdir flashdevelopment
root@devbox:/usr/local/src$ cd flashdevelopment/
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ wget -q \

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/flash/release/sdk.zip

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ wget -q \

http://haxe.org/file/haxe-1.19-linux.tar.gz

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ unzip -q sdk.zip
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ tar -zxf \
haxe-1.19-linux.tar.gz

To make haXe work:

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ cd haxe-1.19-linux
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux$ cp haxe /usr/bin/
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux$ cp haxelib /usr/bin
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux$ cp haxedoc /usr/bin/
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux$ mkdir /usr/lib/haxe
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux$ ln -s /usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/haxe-1.19-linux/std/ /usr/lib/haxe

Now we need to generate hxclasses from the SDK to make it usable in haXe

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ cd lib
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/lib$ mv map_1_9.swc map_1_9.zip
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/lib$ unzip map_1_9.zip
Archive: map_1_9.zip
inflating: library.swf
inflating: catalog.xml
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/lib$ haxe –gen-hx-classes library.swf

Now, there are some changes that has to made to make haXe like the API
I generated the working sources with a newer version of haXe, and applied the changes to it.
This makes the patchfile a bit larger than it had to be, because I had to make a patch against my haxe 1.19-generated hxclasses/ folder.
Anyways, this works and it is against the 1.9 file from Google.

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/lib$ wget -q \

http://arpa.no/googlemaps.diff

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/lib$ patch -p0 < \
googlemaps.diff

Clean up a bit so we can just develop here:

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ rm lib/map_*
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ rm haxe-1.19-linux.tar.gz sdk.zip

Lets try to create just a simple map, this file will be /usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/MyMap.hx

import com.google.maps.Map;
import com.google.maps.MapEvent;
import com.google.maps.LatLng;
import com.google.maps.MapType;
import com.google.maps.controls.ZoomControl;
import com.google.maps.controls.MapTypeControl;
import com.google.maps.controls.PositionControl;

class MyMap extends Map {
static function main() {
var app:MyMap = new MyMap();
flash.Lib.current.addChild(app);
app.setSize(new flash.geom.Point(400,400));
}

public function new(){
super();
addEventListener(MapEvent.MAP_READY, onMapReady);
}

private function onMapReady(event:MapEvent) {
setCenter(new LatLng(40.416740,-3.703250), 2, MapType.NORMAL_MAP_TYPE);
setZoom(2,false);
addControl(new ZoomControl());
addControl(new PositionControl());
addControl(new MapTypeControl());
}

}

Now we need to make a way for haXe to understand how to compile this with the API, so this is the contents of:
/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment/compile.hxml

-swf map.swf
-swf-version 9
-cp lib/hxclasses/
-swf-lib lib/library.swf
-main MyMap

Use haXe to compile this map into an SWF:

root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$ haxe compile.hxml
root@devbox:/usr/local/src/flashdevelopment$

Voila! Your first Google Flash Map, fresh from the oven.. the filename is map.swf
Try to include this on a webpage, check the source here if you don’t know how to do it.
Your API key should be in the flashvars when applying the flash object on a webpage.
&ltparam name=”flashvars” value=”key=key”/&gt

Here is my result, I messed up the width/height of my app, but it works:

Hope someone can have use out of this!

Tags: api, flash, google maps, haXe