1. OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by tbohon Jun 02, 2014
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Has anybody here had any experience installing OE on a Win8.1 laptop or desktop PC? I have a new HP which came with 8.1 pre-installed and what I've been reading today (during my long, boring conference call) makes it seem as if installing any non-MS software will be somewhat of a PITB.
Any thoughts on this appreciated.
Tom
2. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by LarryMiller Jun 02, 2014
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I have run Euphoria on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 running on a virtual machine with no difficulties whatsoever.
3. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 02, 2014
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I have run Euphoria on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 running on a virtual machine with difficulties whatsoever.
What sort of difficulties?
4. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jun 02, 2014
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My primary desktop is running Windows 8.1 and I've had no issues installing or using OpenEuphoria whatsoever. It was exactly the same as Windows 7 and that worked perfectly as well.
Maybe you're thinking of the Windows RT environment, which is ARM based. Even then, you should be able to run the BETA Euphoria 4.1 ARM release.
TIP: On Windows 8.1, I've installed Classic Shell, which boots to the desktop (no Start screen) and has a Windows 7-style Start menu. I love it. 
-Greg
5. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by LarryMiller Jun 02, 2014
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I meant to say no difficulties whatsoever. Original post edited
6. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by andi49 Jun 02, 2014
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My primary desktop is running Windows 8.1 and I've had no issues installing or using OpenEuphoria whatsoever. It was exactly the same as Windows 7 and that worked perfectly as well.
Maybe you're thinking of the Windows RT environment, which is ARM based. Even then, you should be able to run the BETA Euphoria 4.1 ARM release.
TIP: On Windows 8.1, I've installed Classic Shell, which boots to the desktop (no Start screen) and has a Windows 7-style Start menu. I love it.
-Greg
Hi
I never missed the StartMenue ;)
RightClick on the Taskbar, choose properties, select 'Showdesktop as Startpage' on the Navigation tab.
(hopefully i translated this correct as i have a german windows).
Euphoria works nice on Win8, i have no problems with it (also the Win32api bindings are outdated, like win32lib etc. but there are outdated since WInXP...)
I think Win8 is really nice and stable, it is much faster than Win7 not to mention XP.
Andreas
7. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 02, 2014
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Maybe you're thinking of the Windows RT environment, which is ARM based. Even then, you should be able to run the BETA Euphoria 4.1 ARM release.
I doubt that would work - all the ARM builds are Linux/Android kernel and link to things like glibc, etc.
It's possible to port it, but we'd need another compiler. I don't think gcc/MinGW supports ARM Windows RT yet - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502149 (OpenWatcom certainly doesn't either.)
I meant to say no difficulties whatsoever. Original post edited
D'oh! That makes a lot more sense. My mistake.
8. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jun 03, 2014
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Maybe you're thinking of the Windows RT environment, which is ARM based. Even then, you should be able to run the BETA Euphoria 4.1 ARM release.
I doubt that would work - all the ARM builds are Linux/Android kernel and link to things like glibc, etc.
It's possible to port it, but we'd need another compiler. I don't think gcc/MinGW supports ARM Windows RT yet - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502149 (OpenWatcom certainly doesn't either.)
Sorry, you're absolutely right. That was exactly what I was thinking but not what I wrote. Already having an ARM port, we're certainly on our way there. I guess you'd have to use Visual Studio to compile it, eh?
-Greg
9. Re: OpenEuphoria and Windows 8.1
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 03, 2014
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Sorry, you're absolutely right. That was exactly what I was thinking but not what I wrote. Already having an ARM port, we're certainly on our way there. I guess you'd have to use Visual Studio to compile it, eh?
Yeah, probably. On the other hand, we're already a good part of the way there as well: http://scm.openeuphoria.org/hg/euphoria/shortlog/728213c7ac07 / http://openeuphoria.org/ticket/478.wc
