Have a Haxe install configured for the right environment, in this case Windows.
All submodules are in libs\ directory. Once you clone the repo and create a .haxelib you will need to point build hxcpp and lime from scratch and install them as dev haxelibs. All other libs can be installed directly as dev haxelibs.
Clone project
cd <project parent directory>
git clone --resursive https://github.com/47rooks/metaball-editor.git
Create a project specific haxelib
cd metaball-editor
haxelib newrepo
Build hxcpp and lime from the libs submodule
haxelib dev hxcpp libs\hxcpp
haxelib dev hxp libs\hxp
haxelib dev format libs\format
haxelib dev lime libs\lime
haxelib run lime rebuild tools
Hit y to rebuild the hxcpp tools.
haxelib run lime rebuild hl
Install all remaining libs dependencies as dev deps.
haxelib dev openfl libs\openfl
haxelib dev haxeui-core libs\haxeui-core
haxelib dev haxeui-flixel libs\haxeui-flixel
haxelib dev flixel libs\flixel
haxelib dev flixel-addons libs\flixel-addons
haxelib dev formula libs\formula
haxelib dev polygonal-ds libs\polygonal-ds
Finally build the metaball-editor project, either in VSCode or from the shell
haxelib run lime test hl
To update the git submodule, from the project directory do:
git submodule update --remote libs/haxeui-core
git commit 'update <submodule> to <commit>'
git push origin main
If the haxelib reference was directly to git it now needs to be updated to be a dev reference as above. Otherwise just rebuild.
If necessary you can rebuild lime itself from scratch like this. In a staging dir do this:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/openfl/lime
git clone https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/format.git
git clone https://github.com/openfl/hxp.git
cd lime
haxelib newrepo
haxelib dev lime lime
haxelib dev format <stagedir>\format
haxelib dev hxp <stagedir>\hxp
haxelib install hxcpp <- I don't know how to clone and build this from source properly yet>
haxelib run lime rebuild tools
haxelib run lime rebuild hl
https://github.com/openfl/lime#building-from-source