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

Posted by Dennis on Mar 26, 2009 in Flash, Uncategorized5 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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