Cannot build Haxe on Alpine Edge

[anjandev]

Hi,

I am trying to write a package for alpine linux using your docker recipe for alpine 3.20 :

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/69597

Although the package build works on alpine 3.20, it does not work on alpine edge. Moreover, it seems Celeste has some noted some issues you may have in the future:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/69597#note_423099

I need to be able to package haxe in alpine so I can package a project I wrote using haxe.

Please let me know if you have a solution or if I can help test.

[andyli]

I am glad to see you're interested in packaging Haxe. Be aware it can take much more effort and time than one may have expected.

Building docker images and packaging for Linux distributions use different approaches. Here in docker-library-haxe we used opam to install OCaml compiler and libraries, but most Linux distributions require packages to use only dependencies from the distribution itself because the whole point of a "distribution" is to have consistency and compatibility across all the packages. That means, instead of using opam, you should specify OCaml and each OCaml libraries in APKBUILD's makedepends. That also means if any deps have not been packaged yet, you must package them all before you can package Haxe.

You may find the package source for other Linux distributions more useful (than the Dockerfile here):
Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/haxe/blob/rawhide/f/haxe.spec
openSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/projects/devel:languages:ocaml/packages/haxe/files/haxe.spec?expand=1
Debian (its package source format is quite different from others): https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-debian/tree/master/debian

For library compatibility issues, e.g. mbedtls 3 support, you will have to use patches. You can use the ones used in other distros, e.g. https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-debian/blob/master/debian/patches/mbedtls3.patch