Testing Unsupported Native Extensions in Flash CS6

I'm currently working on an iOS application using Flash CS6 Pro targeting the AIR 3.3.0.3560 SDK. In order to compile using the iOS 5.1 SDK (to support retina displays) from Flash CS6 it's necessary to add in a native extension in order to specify the iOS SDK location.
I've add the 'Vibration' native extension (com.adobe.extensions.Vibration.ane) library to my project, and of course supplied the full path to the iOS SDK. Publishing to the device works just fine, but an issue has crept into my everyday workflow as I can no longer test using ADL as I always get the following error via the output window:
"Test Movie terminated.
The content cannot be loaded because there was a problem loading an extension: Error: Requested extension com.adobe.Vibration is not supported for MacOS-x86."
Any ideas how to go about testing apps/movies that use Native Extensions locally using ADL?
Is it a matter of having to create another target for 'MacOS-x86' (or Windows) which is simply used for local testing purposes?
BTW - ideally it would be possible to compile from Flash CS6 using the iOS SDK without having to specify a native extension (if one isn't required), but in the meantime this appears to be a necessary evil.

Hi,
Its probably because the number of warnings in your application is very high and its a known issue that packaging fails in Flash Pro/Flash Builder, if the number of warnings is high.
You may want to suppress the warnings using -w in the platform.xml file and repackage your ANE using the -platformoptions switch. Then, you will be able to package your app in Flash Pro.
If that’s not possible, you may just package your application on command line.
Hope that solves your problem.
Neha

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