1. Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by carolyn_r May 29, 2011
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Hello again. I was a member of this forum before, when I was using Windows, Euphoria 3 and Judith's IDE. When I ditched Windows in favour of Linux it all got a bit bewildering and I "defected" to Gambas which has a nice built-in GUI designer. But I do miss the Euphoria language, so I'm back for another try. I see Matt has produced wxIDE to go with wxEuphoria so I'd like to use that. I suspect I'll need a lot of help, but you were all very helpful before.
I'm currently using Ubuntu Natty and Mint Katya and I would imagine the procedure is the same for both. I've downloaded the .deb file for Euphoria 4.0.2 and I gather I've got to update the wxWidgets that comes with the distros, is that right? When it comes to wxEuphoria I seem to have a choice between a "binary" and "full" download, which one do I need? And is wxIDE only available as source? If so, does that mean I have to go through the make-configure-install process or whatever order it is?
And you were all hoping for a bit of peace and quiet this weekend! Sorry to disturb it!
2. Re: Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) May 29, 2011
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I'm currently using Ubuntu Natty and Mint Katya and I would imagine the procedure is the same for both. I've downloaded the .deb file for Euphoria 4.0.2 and I gather I've got to update the wxWidgets that comes with the distros, is that right?
Yes, the wxWidgets that comes with those should be fine with wxEuphoria, although you might need to build the wxEuphoria libraries.
When it comes to wxEuphoria I seem to have a choice between a "binary" and "full" download, which one do I need? And is wxIDE only available as source? If so, does that mean I have to go through the make-configure-install process or whatever order it is?
The binary download does not come with the C++ source, where the full comes with both the libraries that I built as well as the source code to allow you to build your own. As for wxIDE, it's all euphoria, so you can run it with the interpreter, or translate it with the euphoria translator if you want.
Matt
3. Re: Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by carolyn_r May 29, 2011
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Thank you for that.
I've installed Euphoria itself. I have the tarball for the full wxEuphoria, but which directory should I extract it into? Also, I wasn't sure which package to install for wxWidgets, is it the one called wx-common?
4. Re: Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by carolyn_r Jun 01, 2011
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Update - after a bit of research I extracted the archive files for wxEuphoria and wxIDE into /usr/share/euphoria, put the include files for both into one of the PATH directories and put libwxeu.so.15 into /usr/local/lib. Then I tried to run one of the wxEuphoria demos and got a message saying "Unable to open wxEuphoria library".
So I found some instructions for building from source, opened a terminal in the wxEuphoria/src directory and typed "./configure" and got a message saying the command "configure" wasn't found.
This was all in Mint Katya, by the way.
What am I doing wrong please?
5. Re: Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Jun 01, 2011
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Update - after a bit of research I extracted the archive files for wxEuphoria and wxIDE into /usr/share/euphoria, put the include files for both into one of the PATH directories and put libwxeu.so.15 into /usr/local/lib. Then I tried to run one of the wxEuphoria demos and got a message saying "Unable to open wxEuphoria library".
You probably need to run ldconfig (as sudo) for the new library to be added to the cache.
So I found some instructions for building from source, opened a terminal in the wxEuphoria/src directory and typed "./configure" and got a message saying the command "configure" wasn't found.
I believe the configure script and makefile are in the src directory.
Matt
6. Re: Installing wxEuphoria and wxIDE
- Posted by carolyn_r Jun 02, 2011
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I did run ldconfig.
The configure script and makefile are in the src directory, but "./configure" didn't work, was I supposed to type something else?
