Daily Archives: December 6, 2006

Ubuntu’s default JRE doesn’t like Flex SDK

I downloaded the latest SDK of Flex to try out coding Flex in Ubuntu (6.06).
Here are the basic steps to try it out:
Download Flex 2 SDK for linux
Extract package to a directory (/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/)
Create simple mxml file called helloworld.mxml
Run the following command:
>/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/bin/mxmlc -o helloworld.swf helloworld.mxml
At this point I got a segmentation fault. Looking at the [...]