I am trying to work with "Adobe Native Extensions" - one of the newest features released in Adobe Flash Builder 4.5. I am trying to communicate between Adobe AIR and a native C++ application on Windows 7 with the help of Adobe Native extensions. (Of course, we can do this today with NativeProcess APIs, but ANE is much more powerful)

Created the sample DLL using cygwin to compile the C++ code (integrated the FlashRuntimeExtensions.h and FlashRuntimeExtensions.lib during compilation)

Built the sampleANE using the following command line.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.5\sdks\Air3.0_flex4.5.1\bin\adt" -package -storetype pkcs12 -keystore "certs\vlabCert.p12" -target ane "TestSampleANE.ane" "bin\extension.xml" -swc "bin\SampleAne.swc" -tsa none -platform Windows-x86 -C "bin"

I faced a small problem here w.r.t. timestamp, which I navigated by adding -tsa none to the above command. I was able to successfully generate the HelloAne.ane

I created a new sample Flex Project, and included the TestSampleAne.ane and SampleAne.swc in the lib files of the project. I was able to successfully access the SampleAne object, as well its public functions in the ActionScript code, and could successfully Adobe Experience Manager Training compile the application. However, when I try to launch the application, it gives me the following error:

Process terminated without establishing connection to debugger.

Not supported native extensions profile

Launch command details:  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.5\sdks\Air3.0_flex4.5.1\bin\adl.exe" -runtime "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.5\sdks\Air3.0_flex4.5.1\runtimes\air\win" E:\ANE\SampleAirProject\bin-debug\SampleAirProject-app.xml E:\ANE\SampleAirProject\bin-debug

At first, I thought that the problem is due to the fact that I was using Flash Builder 4.5, and not 4.5.1 (which is what Adobe recommends for working with ANE). So, I downloaded the patch and upgraded it. I even checked that I have AIR 3.0 runtime on my machine. But even then the problem remains the same.