I was alerted early this morning to a post that an enterprising developer by the name of feiy had made on his blog.

Quite simply he claims to have Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 working natively under Eclipse in Linux. He backs up this claim with screenshots and a downloadable eclipse archive of his work.

I will report back later today if this has worked for me or not but if you are interested in this sort of thing then you should check out his blog here

UPDATE:

So I’ve tested it, compiled with it and even threw an existing, fairly large, project at it. It works great. There is no design mode for those wondering, but I choose to view this port with a certain amount of reserved optimism that if one person can do this quite easily, then Adobe shouldn’t have much harder of a time…..or they should hire feiy.

There were a few things that I initially came up against that bugged me, but were very minor. First being that the archive wouldn’t decompress for me until I stripped the .gz off the end (could be my quirky system).

Second, which was probably due to trying this in a VM of Ubuntu 9.10 that I haven’t set up properly, I couldn’t just add the directory to the sources list in Eclipse. So I ended up just dropping the files over the top of eclipse.

I was successfully able to compile both Flex SDK 3.4 and 4.0 projects and I did it all in Eclipse 3.5, Galileo.

As per usual, if you haven’t already, go and vote on FB-19053 to show Adobe how much we want this to happen. And if you’ve been too lazy to sign up so you can’t vote then maybe now’s the time you finally pull your finger out and get involved.