1. Long absent user's question: Install Euphoria on USB Drive?
- Posted by phillfri Feb 23, 2009
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- Last edited Feb 24, 2009
Can one get Euphoria to install and run on a usb drive? I used to use Euphoria awhile way back when, but now have a need for something that I can install on and run from a usb drive without leaving stuff behind on the computer I use it on. If I recall correctly. Euphoria used to require changes be made to the Windows autoexec file. But its been so long, maybe there are ways around this now?
2. Re: Long absent user's question: Install Euphoria on USB Drive?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Feb 24, 2009
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Can one get Euphoria to install and run on a usb drive? I used to use Euphoria awhile way back when, but now have a need for something that I can install on and run from a usb drive without leaving stuff behind on the computer I use it on. If I recall correctly. Euphoria used to require changes be made to the Windows autoexec file. But its been so long, maybe there are ways around this now?
You don't need to modify autoexec.bat, but you do need to update environment variables for euphoria 3.1 to work from a USB drive. Specifically, you need to update EUDIR, EUINC and your PATH (unless you use a fully qualified path to run euphoria).
Euphoria 4.0 also uses config files to specify this, so you shouldn't need to update the environment variables.
Matt
3. Re: Long absent user's question: Install Euphoria on USB Drive?
- Posted by MikeManturov Feb 24, 2009
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For temporary changing of the enviroment variables I use such batfile:
setenv.bat
@echo off set path=%path%;%1\euphoria\bin set eubin=%1\euphoria\bin set euinc=%1\euphoria\include set eudir=%1\euphoria %comspec%
It opens command prompt with the enviroment variables set properly. The only problem is to know the drive letter to be passed to this script. I use the third-party program, but it is possible to write the euphoria script and bind it. Something like that:
constant cmd = command_line() constant drive = cmd[2][1] -- get the first symbol of the path to the script system("setenv.bat " & drive & ':',2)
Tested on WinXP. (Try 'ex', 'exw', 'exwc', 'ed', 'guru', etc. To run custom eu-program try 'exwc file.exw')
Probably it's possible to run some file manager like Far or even Total Commander instead of command prompt. Just try to replace %comspec% with the path to your favorite file manager in the first script. Use %1 as the placeholder of the drive letter.
