Import Go libraries into your Haxe projects.

A spiritual successor to Elliott Stoneham's compiler

• Why?
  • Why for Go devs
• Language support
  • Compatibility Haxe targets
• Installation
• Usage
  • Web server example
• Demo HTTP launch video on youtube
  • Demo source code
• Setup from source
• Community
• Credits

The Go programming language fills in the gap for some of Haxe's biggest weaknesses, that being:

• Small ecosystem
• Lack of documentation
• Lack of cross target libraries

Go can be seen as an alternative to the Nodejs ecosystem:

Makes Go code even more portable using go2hx to be able to compile to Javascript, Jvm, C++ and more in the future.

• Allows Go to be able to be used as a full stack programming language, both backend and frontend.
• Makes Go the perfect language to develop library drivers for multiple languages, only writing once in Go.

The compiler supports a sub-specification of the Go language, written about in detail here.

The gist is that the language is compatible with Go's specification except when using cgo, runtime/reflect internals, unsafe, or syscall.

There are many edge cases that limit the compiler from being able to produce correct library code. If you are wondering does "library/feature X work yet", the best way is to try the compiler out yourself.

Supported: Hashlink.

Partially supported: Eval

Planned: C++, Jvm, Javascript.

Javascript can only be supported with a coroutine model.

1. Download Haxe 5.0.0+
2. Git needs to be installed
3. Hxcpp haxe library is required for the compiler

haxelib git hxcpp https://github.com/haxefoundation/hxcpp

3. A C++ compiler is required to use Hxcpp, for more information.

4. Install the compiler

haxelib git go2hx https://github.com/go2hx/go2hx

To compile a given library run the following command in the directory of your project:

haxelib run go2hx [library_here]

This will by default create a golibs folder and go2hx.*.zip HXB files * representing the supported Haxe targets.

Now include the outputted code into your build hxml or equivalent (needs to be the same location, where the compiler was invoked):

--hxb-lib go2hx.zip
-w -WStaticInitOrder # temporarily required to hide a Haxe compiler warning

Requires

1. go2hx installed
2. hashlink downloaded

For example, to compile net/http to build a web server, run the command in a new project folder:

haxelib run go2hx net/http

Create a build.hxml file, in the same directory:

-m Main
--hxb-lib go2hx.zip
-w -WStaticInitOrder # temporarily required to hide a Haxe compiler warning
--hl test.hl

Create a Main.hx file:

import go.net.http.Http;
function main() {
    Http.handleFunc("/hello", (response:ResponseWriter, request:Request) -> {
        response.write("HELLO THERE");
    });
    Sys.println("starting!");
    Http.listenAndServe("127.0.0.1:8090", null);
}

Run the resulting code:

haxe build.hxml
hl test.hl

After starting! is shown navigate to the webserver: http://localhost:8090/hello

Voila! A working all in Haxe webserver. The go2hx compiler only needs to be run again to add/update Go packages.

For more information check the documentation!

import go.net.http.Http;

function main() {
    // "/hello" handle
    Http.handleFunc("/hello", (response, request) -> {
        // response.write("hello!");
        // Let's redirect instead
        Http.redirect(response, request, "/headers", statusFound);
    });
    // "/headers" handle
    Http.handleFunc("/headers", (response, request) -> {
        for (key => values in request.header) {
            response.write(key + "\n");
            for (value in values) {
                response.write("   " + value + "\n");
            }
        }
    });
    // turn Dir into an interface, Dir -> FileSystem
    final fileHandler = go.Go.asInterface(("." : Dir));
    // "/" handle
    Http.handle("/", Http.fileServer(fileHandler));
    // starting web server
    trace("starting!");
    Http.listenAndServe(":3000", null);
}

Clone the repo using the recursive flag:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/go2hx/go2hx

cd go2hx
haxelib dev go2hx .
haxelib run go2hx build

Haxe #go2hx discord channel. Read the contributing guide for insights and information on adding code into the project.

A spiritual successor to Tardisgo written by Elliott Stoneham, A maintainer, mentor, and code contributor of this project, go2hx would not exist without him.