Today I tried to finish setting up my flex development setup. I had issues setting up a decent php environment inside of the stand alone Flex Builder 3 (based on Eclipse 3.3). So I decided to get myself a good Eclipse PDT from www.eclipse.org/pdt/. Then I tried installing the Flex Builder 3 plug-in for Eclipse. There I ran into serious problems:

It seems that Eclipse made some big changes in Eclipse 3.5 (Gallileo). So the Flex Builder 3 plug-in would not install correctly. After surfing the internet for answers I found a post about the link-file inside the links folder. It seemed that I had to edit this file in order to get it going.

Almost!

Not only do you have to edit the file links/com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.osx.link from /Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in to path=/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in
But this only works with the Cocoa version of Eclipse!

Finally, the working setup:

  • Eclipse PDT Cocoa version
  • Flex Builder 3 plug-in
  • Changes to the links/com.adobe.flexbuilder.feature.core.osx.link file as described above