Helm

Haxe Enhanced Library Manager provides recreatable builds, caching, and other benefits on top of haxelib. HELM works with haxelib instead of as a replacement. It enhances a Haxe project by providing the following benefits.

• Locally stored packages
• Zip and publish packages from the project folder
• Options for installing packages and dependencies (haxelib, git, local paths)
• Single version of a package installed
• Packages are cached for quick installs
• Initialize a project and pull in dependencies

Installing Libraries

Libraries can be installed locally, the default, or globally. Doing so will download the library and unzip it into the appropriate libs/ folder.

helm add openfl
# install from git (alternate shortcut)
helm add https://bitbucket.org/Lythom/haxepunk-gui.git
helm add HaxeFoundation/hxcpp # shortcut for github
# install from a folder
helm add c:\\Haxe\\mylib
# install a specific version
helm add format:3.1.2

Show Installed Libraries

To get a full listing of the installed libraries use the following command.

# shows libraries installed locally
helm list

Running commands

Helm can run commands just like haxelib does.

helm run openfl build html5
# or
helm openfl build html5

Building with hxml

Helm can also build hxml files.

helm build compile.hxml
# or to build all hxml files in your project
helm build