Installing Adobe Alchemy: “bash: alc-on: command not found” Error

Posted by Dennis on Mar 26, 2009 in Flash, Uncategorized • 5 comments

I’m currently trying to get started with Adobe Alchemy. I’ve downloaded the SDK and Cygwin. I’ve followed all the steps from the getting started documentation: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:Documentation:Getting_Started. When trying to execute this command:

alc-on; which gcc

I get this error

bash: alc-on: command not found

The problem here is that the .bashrc file is not executed when the Cygwin bash shell launches. The .bashrc file should be in the $HOME directory. To find out where that directory is, this command should be issued:

echo $HOME

The following line should be added to /cygwin/etc/profile text file:

. "$HOME/.bashrc"

After this the “alc-on; which gcc” should work.



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  1. Kshitij on May 19, 2009, 1:26 pm:

    At what place do we need to append this line in the profile text file. I added in the end and it’s still not working.

  2. Water ionizer on Aug 13, 2009, 4:38 am:

    Hi,

    Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section! I was searching for this since past 3 months and i am glad to see it here. Thanking you much

    Martin

  3. seth on May 30, 2010, 6:01 am:

    Nice tutorial. i tried to setup the Alchemy at my system

    i have windows 7, i read your tutorial and everything is setuped without an error but when i reopen the cygwin i got the following errors.

    1. :No Such file or directorylchemy-setup
    2. bash: alc-on: command not found.

    i already tried to troubleshoot and invest around two days, but no help.. can you please suggest me how can i setuped the alchemy. i am so excited to convert one of my C Lib into swc.

    Please help.

    One more thing. i have installed cygwin for all users, not only for me.

  4. neeru on Jan 7, 2011, 5:46 am:

    while setting the alchemy i am struck at the step where we are required to type the command”ln -s llvm-stub llvm-stub.exe”. a message is getting displayed “failed to link to llvm-stub.exe :file exists” ..i hav ebeen trying to remove it 4 so long..plz help me out..

  5. proavus on Jul 12, 2011, 4:13 pm:

    Hi. I had the same problem and the reason was that I had colons in the paths

    For sample I had the line
    source /cygdrive/d:/Devel/Flex/Alchemy/alchemy-setup

    And it didn’t work until I removed the colon, correct way is the folowing:
    source /cygdrive/d/Devel/Flex/Alchemy/alchemy-setup

    Hope it helps someone

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