above errors are from version haxe_2015-01-28_development_8d1cc78.tar.gz
rolled back to haxe_2015-01-27_development_456a1a8.tar.gz
worked,
now resulting call is
haxe basic.hxml haxelib run hxcpp Build.xml haxe -Dhaxe3="1" -Dhaxe_ver="3.2" -Dhxcpp_api_level="313" -I"/usr/lib/haxe/extraLibs/" -I"/usr/local/lib/haxe/extraLibs/" -I"" -I"/usr/lib/haxe/std/cpp/_std/" -I"/usr/local/lib/haxe/std/cpp/_std/" -I"/usr/lib/haxe/std/" -I"/usr/local/lib/haxe/std/"
Note the blank -I"" as well!