1) -target-player option On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: > I just learned this tidbit that relates to this thread. -target-player is > parsed and is used to replace the tokens > > {targetPlayerMajorVersion} and {targetPlayerMinorVersion} that appear in > any of the config files specified for mxmlc. >
That makes sense, Carol. I did some testing with a very simple AS3 app: package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class SampleApp extends Sprite{ public function SampleApp(){ } } } If compile that application using this command mxmlc SampleApp.as -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries everything works as expected. Using the option "-target-player 12" mxmlc SampleApp.as -target-player 12 -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries I get the following error: Error: unable to open 'libs/player/12.1/playerglobal.swc' As you said, the value of the -target-player option is used when constructing the path to the playerglobal.swc. 2) -swf-version option Now I tested the -swf-version option. That's interesting, since I can use any random number, e.g. 99. What the compiler does is write that number into the SWF file, as I confirmed using the swfdump tool: mxmlc SampleApp.as -swf-version 99 -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries Resulting output with swfdump for the generated SWF file: raju@titan:~/test$ swfdump SampleApp.swf | more <!-- Parsing swf file:/home/raju/test/SampleApp.swf --> <!-- ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? --> <swf xmlns='http://macromedia/2003/swfx' version='99' framerate='24' size='10000x7500' compressed='true' > As you can see, that values get's written into the version attribute for the swf tag. In binary format, that's the 4th byte in the SWF file: First 4 bytes of the SWF without the -swf-version option, with Flex SDK 4.6 43 57 53 0E First 4 bytes of the SWF witht the option "-swf-version 99" 43 57 53 63 But other sections of the files differ as well, so I'm not sure what else the -swf-version option does during compilation. Thanks, Raju