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--server-connect

Haxe 4.0 introduces a new way of communicating IDE and the compiler.

Here's what an IDE needs to do:

  • start a TCP server on some port (can pass 0 to bind to any available one)
  • start haxe --server-connect <port> where <port> is replaced with the port number the started TCP server was bound to.
  • haxe will connect to that server and await requests, ensure that happens
  • send messages of the following structure:
    • 32-bit little endian signed int with length of the following message body
    • body
  • expect response messages of the same structure

(this length-prefixed message format is the same as with --wait-stdio)

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