OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Linking errors

• Posted by irv 2 days ago
• 95 views

I "think" I got those kinds of errors when trying to compile with Euphoria 4.1. I've been using 4.2 for a while now, and it compiles in the usual manner: euc hello

You could try this to see if it helps:

Although for most purposes, interpreting or binding programs works fine, if you wish to compile your program, on newest Linux distros (e.g. Mint 19 and later) euc fails: You'll need to run a short script, shown below.

Replace the -j8 with -j[n] where [n] is the number of processors you have. Makes things faster.

euc -build-dir build -extra-lflags="-no-pie" -makefile $1.ex
make -j8 -f $1.mak -C build

I named the script 'compile', make it executable, and call it like this: ./compile hello

irv@irv-desktop:~$ ./compile hello 
Translating code, pass: 1 2 3  generating 
 
3.c files were created. 
To build your project, change directory to build/ and type make -f hello.mak 
make: Entering directory '/home/irv/build' 
gcc -fomit-frame-pointer -c -w -fsigned-char -O2 -m64 -I/usr/local/euphoria-4.1.0-Linux-x64 -ffast-math init-.c -o init-.o 
gcc -fomit-frame-pointer -c -w -fsigned-char -O2 -m64 -I/usr/local/euphoria-4.1.0-Linux-x64 -ffast-math hello.c -o hello.o 
gcc -fomit-frame-pointer -c -w -fsigned-char -O2 -m64 -I/usr/local/euphoria-4.1.0-Linux-x64 -ffast-math main-.c -o main-.o 
gcc -o /home/irv/hello init-.o hello.o main-.o  /usr/local/euphoria-4.1.0-Linux-x64/bin/eu.a -m64 -ldl -lm -lpthread -no-pie 
make: Leaving directory '/home/irv/build' 

You can ignore all that extra text, don't bother about the changing to build and typing make, etc... it's already been done for you.

irv@irv-desktop:~$ ./hello 
Hello World! 

4. Re: Linking errors

• Posted by peterR 2 days ago
• 67 views

Thanks for that, Irv, but I'm afraid it doesn't work for me. I get the same errors as before but preceded by those extra words that you cite. The fact that it works for you but not for me makes me more curious. As has been said elsewhere, binding works really well so compilation is unnecessary - but I may explore a bit more. (By the way, I had already tried out your suggestion as I found it on the Wiki re GTK, though at the time I had no idea whether it was GTK-specific).
Cheers
Peter

6. Re: Linking errors

• Posted by irv 2 days ago
• 57 views
• Last edited 1 day ago

I followed the "build from source" instructions on the downloads page, and had no trouble building 4.2

Granted, that is off-putting to prospective new users.

That said, there's really little to no benefit to compiling a program. It's mostly a waste of time, in my opinion, one that might have been useful when we were running original IBM pc's back in the previous century.

The only reason someone might have to compile a Eu program would be if they're planning to sell or distribute it to the public. And so far, that has never happened AFAIK.

8. Re: Linking errors

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) 22 hours ago
• 19 views

I agree that translating is mostly unnecessary, but I have had a few occasions where I'm doing enough work that it has saved me a lot of time.

You'd think it's the "this will take hours" type of work but no, it's actually the "this takes several seconds" and it's just long enough to be frustrating.

Run the program through the translator and now it runs in half a second, and I can move on to actually using it for whatever I intended.

The binaries for Euphoria itself are built with the translator and distributed to the public. So at least we're eating our own dog food, so to speak.

-Greg