Specifications

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This displays a menu of choices for getting help. The most common choice is to list the basic configuration
options:
mxmlc -help list
To see advanced options, use the list advanced option, as the following example shows:
mxmlc -help list advanced
To see a list of entries whose names or descriptions include a particular String, use the following syntax:
mxmlc -help pattern
The following example returns descriptions for the external-library-path, library-path, and runtime-
shared-libraries
options:
mxmlc -help list library
For a complete description of mxmlc options, see “About the application compiler options” on page 139. For a
complete description of compc options, see “About the component compiler options” on page 161.
Many command-line options, such as show-actionscript-warnings and accessible, have true and false
values. You specify these values by using the following syntax:
mxmlc -accessible=true -show-actionscript-warnings=true
Some options, such as source-path, take a list of one or more options. You can see which options take a list by
examining the help output. Square brackets (
[ ]) that surround options indicate that the option can take a list of
one or more parameters.
You can separate each entry in a list with a space or a comma. The syntax is as follows:
-var val1 val2
or
-var=val1, val2
If you do not use commas to separate entries, you terminate a list by using a double hyphen, as the following
example shows:
-var val1 val2 -- -next_option
If you use commas to separate entries, you terminate a list by not using a comma after the last entry, as the
following example shows:
-var=val1, val2 -next_option
You can append values to an option using the += operator. This adds the new entry to the end of the list of existing
entries rather than replacing the existing entries. The following example adds the c:/myfiles directory to the
library-path option:
mxmlc -library-path+=c:/myfiles