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1. Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SunPsych08 Jun 08, 2016
• 2650 views

Hello,

I'm having a program compiling my Eu programs. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm running Win7 on a 64bit machine.
Eu 4.1.0 is installed at c:\Euphoria. My user variables are: EUDIR = c:\Euphoria and path = c:\Euphoria\bin;
MinGW (for 32 bit) is installed at c:\MinGW. The (user) path is set to c:\MinGW\bin;
My Eu programs are at: c:\users\user\programming\projects\euphoria
At the console prompt in that directory i enter: euc -gcc -con hello.ex
I get a message that says:
Couldn't compile file init-.c
Status: -1
Command: gcc -DEWINDOWS -fomit-frame-pointer -c -w -fsigned-char -02 -m64 -IC:/Euphoria -ffast-math init-.c

Can anyone please decode the message for me and suggest a solution?

Thank you,
Alex

3. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SunPsych08 Jun 09, 2016
• 2566 views

Might be a problem with our configure script. If MinGW is 32bit then we should not be passing the -m64 option to it. 

OK. I wonder what other Euphorians are doing? Cygwin or OW I guess. Anyway, thank you. I'll try another compiler.
Alex

5. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SDPringle Jun 10, 2016
• 2559 views

Euphoria is written with the expectation that if you can run the 64 bit version of the translator, you have a compiler that can create 64-bit binaries.

I can imagine scenarios when a user might want to create 32-bit binaries on his 64-bit machine. If you are writing programs for other computers, you surely want this. Yet, if you do, perhaps you don't want the performance of programs running on your 64-bit box to be limited to a 32-bit version of Euphoria.

Other Euphoria users have a matching compiler for the translator. Changing ming to a 64-bit version or changing Euphoria to a 32-bit version would eliminate the error message and allow you to create binaries. The cflags option should work as well, and can be made less painful with a batch file.

Shawn

7. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SunPsych08 Jun 11, 2016
• 2480 views

Admittedly, I'm new at this. I read in the Manual under 6.4.2.1 Notes: that "Currently, only 32-bit compilers are supported on 64-bit platforms", and I took this to mean that I should use the 32-bit version of MinGW, even though I've got a 64-bit machine. In case it makes any difference, I can add that to date I've tried typing at the prompt: C:\...>euc -con hello.ex and C:\...>euc -gcc -con hello.ex, without success.

To get me going, if someone told me what MinGW compiler they use, where they got it from, how they installed it (if any special fiddling was required), and how they make it work for Eu 4.1, I'll happily follow in their footsteps.

Actually, what I really want to do is to use the translator to generate C code from my programs, so that I can study it. If I can achieve that without messing about with compilers, I could live with it and continue to bind my programs instead. (Even so, it would still be nice to know how to compile them as well.) I'd appreciate any guidance in this matter also.

Thank you,
Alex

9. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SunPsych08 Jun 12, 2016
• 2398 views

Thanks Pete.

When I tried installing Phix, via the installer and also from the zip file, I got the following error on both occasions:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix"
Cannot open autoinclude VM\pcallfunc.e
in C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\,
...C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\builtins\VM\,
...C:\Program Files (x86)\Phix\builtins\,
or C:\Euphoria\include.

Do I have to do something extra to make it work?

Thank you,
Alex

11. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by SunPsych08 Jun 13, 2016
• 2388 views

Got it! Thanks Pete.
Alex

13. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by jmduro Aug 26, 2016
• 2197 views

Now to run some demos as tinEWGdemo/poly.exw, other include files are missing (pCrashN.e). Maybe phix.zip should be updated.

Jean-Marc

15. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by petelomax Aug 26, 2016
• 2178 views

Hello there

Very brave of you!

All noted, thanks

I have spent the last two months or more working on IUP, mainly trying to port Edita.
Just this week I was thinking it is about time I fired up Linux and got what I have so far working, and ship a new release.
That is not likely to happen overnight, though.

Me too
Seriously though, all help appreciated, of course, but at the moment I have to admit that Phix on Linux is not really usable yet.
(I think demo/pGUI/alarm.exw worked, but that was about it.)
Will keep you posted if/when I make any progress.

Pete

17. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by jmduro Aug 27, 2016
• 2130 views

Thank's Pete,

syswait.ew reference /home/pete in the bitbucket version leading to errors when executing demos:

builtins/syswait.ew:setenv("PHIXROOT","/home/pete/phix/") 

/phix should do the job for anyone if phix is installed as recommended in /home/<user>/phix.

Regards

Jean-Marc

19. Re: Unable to compile Eu programs

• Posted by petelomax Aug 28, 2016
• 2083 views

Might be worth checking ptok.e - mine has a couple of

--          path = "/home/pete/phix/"&path[3..$] 
            path = getenv("HOME")&"/phix/"&path[3..$] 

- one in addPath(), and one in includeFile().

/home/pete/phix/pglobals.e:-1 in procedure set_rootpath() 
index 0 out of bounds, reading sequence length 4 

I may have already addressed the "-1 => proper line number" issue on my copy, in any case it is obviously the find(rootpath[j],..) on line 104
I have no real idea why I coded

    for j=length(rootpath) to 0 by -1 do 

instead of

    for j=length(rootpath) to 1 by -1 do 

It may be worth trying that, or it may be that rootpath needs to be set to "" or ".", or there may be more serious problems with get_proper_path() on Lnx...
The other thing you could try is "./phix alarm.exw"

Pete