OpenEuphoria

1. Phix first try

• Posted by lib9 3 months ago
• 288 views

Hi,

After four or five years, I got interested again on trying the Euphoria way, in the Phix flavour, as Euphoria itself seems stagnant.

Last time, Phix was seg faulting in Linux and it stopped me from building some scripts.

Now, I tried again, this time on Windows as it seems to be the main operating system for Phix.

After installation, to try to run 'pw edita' as suggested at http://phix.x10.mx/tutorial.php, I had to cd to demos\edita and then there's an error: 'error creating \demo\edita\edita.edb'

C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\src\eaedb.e:1228 in procedure initEditaEdb() 
attempt to divide by 0 
    tlist = <novalue> 
    exh = <novalue> 
    errCode = -1 
    Fkey = <novalue> 
    i = <novalue> 
    j = <novalue> 
... called from C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\src\eaedb.e:1297 
... called from C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\edita.exw:994 
 
Global & Local Variables 
Press Enter... 

Went for the other example 'pw pgui'. So, cd ..\ cd pGUI pw pGUI

Another error is generated.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\src\eaedb.e:1228 in procedure initEditaEdb() 
attempt to divide by 0 
    tlist = <novalue> 
    exh = <novalue> 
    errCode = -1 
    Fkey = <novalue> 
    i = <novalue> 
    j = <novalue> 
... called from C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\src\eaedb.e:1297 
... called from C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\edita.exw:994 
 
Global & Local Variables 
Press Enter... 

Another unwelcome reception...

3. Re: Phix first try

• Posted by petelomax 3 months ago
• 242 views

Sorry about that, my first reaction would be to right click on C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix or C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita and uncheck read-only, either should resolve the issue, however I just checked my own system and only C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\demo\edita\edita.edb itself was thus writeable, which you may struggle to match if it could not create that file in the first place.

Rather than actually fix that, I plan to work on a replacement that stores things in %APPDATA% or something like that, but that may take a while.

PS: Edita is a bit long in the tooth, 32-bit Windows only, predates Windows getting the huff with writing to Program Files, and deserves said replacement.
PPS: That Linux segfault took me an embarassingly long time (was it nine months, was it a year and a half?) of chasing threads on SO and kernel forums
to figure out they'd changed the stack alignment, but should be fixed now (flw).

5. Re: Phix first try

• Posted by katsmeow 3 months ago
• 229 views

I don't blame you, i almost never used %PATH% for anything, and have spent hours editing those include statements with paths, just so a program would run. If it's an include file, put it in the include file that is level with the application needing it, or the root of OE/Phix directory. I once looked over my OE install, and found like 15 /include/ directories, and the files in them may have the same name but be different source code!

Kat