1. A short story
- Posted by jessedavis Sep 24, 2018
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I was reading tom's [rant] Simple, Small, Superbe.
Euphoria is a superb rapid development language. I have used it since the days of, maybe, 2.7...
Recently I assembled a new system for a customer and installed Euphoria as usual. Loaded some custom software I had written and discovered that the software which worked perfectly on my office system simply would not run on the new system. Aargh... After considerable trouble shooting I found the problem. I had, for an unknown reason, accidentally loaded 4.1 (64) instead of my usual 4.05 (32). I still don't know what the problem with 4.1 is. This time it seemed to have something to do with returns from procedures. It has many other problems. Example, I have never been able to get euc to work correctly under 4.1.
I guess the point of this rant is: If it doesn't work reliably then take it down.
Regards,
jd
2. Re: A short story
- Posted by irv Sep 24, 2018
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I've been using 4.1 for years, everything works, with only one very minor and rarely encountered bug.
Friday I installed Eu and EuGTK on a new Windows 10 computer I bought. Everything works.
Your old programs written for Eu 2.x or 3.x may need a few modifications to run on 4.1, but it isn't rocket surgery.
3. Re: A short story
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 24, 2018
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One thing to be clear about: existing Win32Lib and wxEuphoria applications are 32-bit only.
AFAIK euphoric has had some weird issues with varying builds of 4.1 vs wxEuphoria, but that's it.
Please feel free to enumerate your issues here and we'll be glad to help.
Meanwhile, Shawn and I have been gradually chipping away at stabilizing the build for 4.1, which is necessary in order to ship something soon.
You can track our progress on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenEuphoria/euphoria/commits/master
-Greg
4. Re: A short story
- Posted by irv Sep 24, 2018
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A question: Windows 10, of course, now comes with nothing remotely useful to anyone who is a programmer - it's all about buying entertainment now.
So, I downloaded this compiler, which seemed easy to set up (it was), and compiles EuGTK programs with no problems:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/
Is this a good choice? Recommendations?
5. Re: A short story
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 24, 2018
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/
Is this a good choice? Recommendations?
Absolutely. TDM-GCC is what I've been recommending for years now.
-Greg
6. Re: A short story
- Posted by jessedavis Sep 28, 2018
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One thing to be clear about: existing Win32Lib and wxEuphoria applications are 32-bit only.
-Greg
I agree that the problem is that there is no win64 wrapper. This is unfortunate as nearly all the programs I write use something from win32lib. The beauty of the winAPI is that it is on every windows system out there so I don't have to carry it along with the software I write.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
jd