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How to build .app for Haxe/Heaps

Preparing your game

Normally you would load your resources from the same directory as your binary, but when building for Mac, you will have to do it slightly differently. Instead of loading your res from ., your should load it from ../Resources/.

Mac .app structure

Game.app
|_Contents
  |_Info.plist

HXSL cheat-sheet

This is a WIP of a cheat-sheet that I will finish Eventually™

Types

Mapping of the shader types to Heaps types:

Float = Float
Int = Int
Bool = Bool

/usr/local on Archlinux

Enable /usr/local/lib/
- echo '/usr/local/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrlocal.conf
- ldconfig
Enable /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/sbin/
- Make sure both of these are in your PATH variable in /etc/profile

	/**
	* ObjectPool is a type building macro to create array-of-structure or structure-of-array pools.
	* With the intention being to improve access performance, both in CPU cache coherence and by avoiding the GC
	*
	* This implementation is a minimal working proof of concept
	*
	* Improvements you may want to make
	* - Support deallocation of instances and space reclaiming
	* - Replace haxe.io.Bytes because field access has overhead
	*