HashLink basic question

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To make sure I understand this correctly, there’s two ways to use HashLink:

  1. “HL/JIT”: use haxe -hl output.hl, where output.hl is HashLink bytecode, to be run on the HashLink VM.

  2. “HL/C”: use haxe -hl out/main.c, where the haxe hl target sees that the target filename ends in “.c” and so it generates C code instead of HashLink bytecode. Then you compile main.c with GCC (or some other C compiler). The HashLink VM is not involved in “HL/C”, correct?

I note that the “HashLink target” is part of the Haxe compiler (like the other targets), and that this is distinct from the actual HashLink VM.

Is that all correct?

Thanks!

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That is correct, also they both have the same runtime:

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Got it! Thanks, Valentin!