Snow Leopard + Flex Builder = Fail?
I just found out that you can’t run Flex builder on OSX Snow Leopard. That SUCKS!
Adobe please fix asap!
mmm. this sort of thing makes me nervous about a proprietary platform (flex sort of is, especially if you want an IDE). Maybe I should look closer at using the SDK on its own.
I am currently running Flex Builder 2, but am keen to hear from any who has been able to get any version of Flex builder running on Snow Leopard, and how good the performance is.
UPDATE: Well, there have been a couple of encouraging comments from people who have got it running. Thanks guys!
Perhaps Adobe should come out and clarify their position.
UPDATE 2: See the results: here
Martin Munoz said @ August 25th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Flash Builder Beta standalone worked for me on 10A421.
Ben Garney said @ August 26th, 2009 at 2:35 am
We’ve used the raw SDK for several projects, and it works great. Flash Builder 4 is nice, but you can get really far with jedit or textmate + ant.
Martin Lindelof said @ August 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
You know there’s the OpenSource platform Eclipse which Flex is built upon. What I really would like to see is the FlashDevelop beeing ported to OSX
Lefou said @ August 27th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4 both run great on 10A432 on my MBP. Same performances as on Leopard.
cisnky said @ August 27th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Why are you still using Flex Builder 2?
John said @ August 28th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Where do you see that FlexBuilder won’t work with Snow Leopard? I dont’ see this listed anywere in Adobe’s FAQ or anywhere online. Just curious.. are we pre-maturing panicking here.
Eric said @ September 7th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Line numbers wont scroll when I scroll the document. breakpoints works but doesn’t show up graphically.
Rob said @ September 7th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Eric I have the same problem with line numbers! Have you had any luck fixing it, I re-installed and nothing changed
h said @ March 10th, 2010 at 7:51 am
Hey Tim, I had the same problem, and managed to get Flex Builder 2 to run with Snow Leopard by installing Java 1.5—following the procedure outlined at http://codethought.com/blog/?p=233