[haXe] Announcing xCross Alpha

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> But now I am now confused with xCross, xinf and SWHX, don't they serve
> all the same purpose or ist xCross just more low level and facilitates
> just the native compilation (but requires native compiler for each
> target platform) to get the single binary output ?

Neko can be compiled on Windows, OSX and Linux. Both SWHX and XInf are
specific Neko libraries :
  - SWHX enable you to open a Flash window and play a SWF inside it
  - XInf use its own API and have an OpenGL renderer

xCross enable you to produce binaries that consists in one single
executable file. It does not require Neko to be installed or available.
OTOH, it doesn't allow more libraries than what is statically provided.

xCross is a perfect solution for example to build haXe/Neko based
installers since you can store your files into a ZIP and link it with
the installer by using -resource haXe commandline option.

Nicolas