Does hxnodejs cause the compiler to define the 'sys' define?

[kevinresol]

Or should it?

[Simn]

It does allow the sys package: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxnodejs/blob/master/extraParams.hxml

I don't know if it can actually add -D sys because that's a reserved flag. We might have to find a solution for that.

[kevinresol]

Yeah but some lib/code depends on the sys define. When the sys-related api are complete (e.g. Sys.stdout()), I think the compiler should define sys for us.

Tried -D sys and it complains that I can't set it manually.

[kevinresol]

I don't know if it can actually add -D sys because that's a reserved flag. We might have to find a solution for that.

Is it possible to hardcode inside the compiler, defining sys when it sees the hxnodejs lib is included?

[nadako]

But hxnodejs doesn't implement full sys api (because it's impossible without dirty tricks (#64). It just implements some of it, so I don't know if it's reasonable to define sys...

[kevinresol]

@nadako maybe make a checklist of them and see what we can do.

[nadako]

the main problem is that we can't implement synchronous API that are used in sys, like Sys.stdout().

[kevinresol]

Will this work? http://stackoverflow.com/a/6471170/3212365

[nadako]

Hmm, I don't know. Will have to look into it, not sure if that'll work everywhere.
Thanks for the hint!