In some cases, the command-line help shows an option with dot-notation syntax; for example, source-path is shown as compiler.source-path. This notation indicates how you would set this option in a configuration file. On the command line, you can specify the option with only the final node, source-path, as long as that node is unique, as the following example shows:

mxmlc -source-path . c:/myclasses/ -- foo.mxml

For more information about using configuration files to store command-line options, see About configuration files.

Some compiler options have aliases. Aliases provide shortened variations of the option name to make command lines more readable and less verbose. For example, the alias for the output option is o. You can view a list of options by their aliases by using the following command:

mxmlc -help list aliases

or

mxmlc -help list advanced aliases

You can also see the aliases in the verbose help output by using the following command:

mxmlc -help list details