Testing Games/Scenes take forever to compile (MacOS Catalina) [ haxelib - nekovm

Notes: I am trying to test the game on flash (either web/browser) or html

When I first downloaded Stencyl, it instructed me to download NekoVm to be able to test games. When i downloaded NekoVm the game started to save and compile however its stuck on compile. Reading the logs it says cannot run program haxelib. So I tried running the program haxe in /Applications/Stencyl-4.0.2-mac/plaf/haxe-bin/mac, but it still wont let me test the game.

I tried simply updating nekovm and even deleting nekoVM and reinstalling it, but the result is still the same

(I tried reading other posts relating to nekovm and haxelib, however, whenever i tried doing the suggestions, my problem is still not resolved or I simply dont understand the suggestion)

Try to read this thread  http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,45403.0.html


Justin posted this script which worked for me when I had a similar problem

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cd /Applications/Stencyl/plaf
sudo -S mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/neko
sudo -S cp -r neko-mac/* /usr/local/lib/neko

sudo -S mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo -S ln -s /usr/local/lib/neko/libneko.dylib /usr/local/lib/libneko.dylib
sudo -S ln -s /usr/local/lib/neko/neko /usr/local/bin/neko
sudo -S ln -s /usr/local/lib/neko/nekoc /usr/local/bin/nekoc
sudo -S ln -s /usr/local/lib/neko/nekotools /usr/local/bin/nekotools

I'm  teaching a student online that is having this exact same issue. He's on a Mac and I'm on a PC though, so troubleshooting is difficult. We tried some things on that other thread but they didn't quite work.

somethingisone - did yopolalala's solution work for you?

Yopololalala - Do you basically just open the Mac terminal, then copy and paste that text?

Thanks for the help.

Well, the solution did not work for me (or I may have performed it improperly). Instead, I deleted all files related to stencyl and the application itself and redownloaded the app, however I have a different problem once more about haxelib and its libraries not loading

We tried putting that code into the terminal and nothing changed.

Any other suggestions besides deleting everything and reinstalling Stencyl?

Looked at the logs. The problem doesn't seem with stencyl .

it says

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
2020-04-16 17:32:54,178 DEBUG [Thread-3] stencyl.sw.util.StreamGobbler: [xcodebuild] xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
2020-04-16 17:32:54,184 DEBUG [Thread-4] stencyl.sw.util.StreamGobbler: [xcodebuild] xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
2020-04-16 17:32:54,190 DEBUG [Thread-5] stencyl.sw.util.StreamGobbler: [xcodebuild] xcrun: error: missing DEVELOPER_DIR path: /Developer
2020-04-16 17:32:54,245 DEBUG [Thread-6] stencyl.sw.util.StreamGobbler: [xcodebuild] xcrun: error: unable to exec Xcode native xcrun (Not a directory).
2020-04-16 17:32:54,245 WARN  [AWT-EventQueue-0] stencyl.sw.util.platform.XCode: No Xcode found.

Did you install XCode ?

So, Xcode is required even when compiling to Flash or HTML5? Other students in my class have been able to test games on their mac without installing it.

Humm, normally no.
I just tried to find errors in the logs and saw this one. I forgot somethingisone was only talking about html/ flash...
But I don't think you need nekovm neither..

I see this error.

2020-04-17 16:43:02,942 ERROR [pool-1-thread-2] stencyl.sw.util.Util: Cannot run program "haxelib" (in directory "/Users/Waki/stencylworks/games-generated/project4xtra"): error=2, No such file or directory
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "haxelib" (in directory "/Users/Waki/stencylworks/games-generated/project4xtra"): error=2, No such file or directory

Does "/Users/Waki/stencylworks/games-generated/project4xtra" exist ?
Do you have the permissions to use   "/Users/Waki/stencylworks" ?
( you can try opening stencyl as an administrator    or doing chmod 777  on the directory)