Re: Compiling RC2 on Windows: failed
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Dec 12, 2010
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I wonder how many people managed to successfully compile Euphoria from sources. I've never been able to do it. I've not tried on Linux yet and won't do that until being able to do it on Windows.
I build Euphoria almost everyday.
However, what you might not understand is that one cannot build Euphoria with only a C compiler and linker as your tool set. This is because a lot of Euphoria is written in Euphoria itself and only some portions of it are written in C.
In order to build Euphoria, one must have either a working Euphoria interpreter plus a C compiler and linker.
I assume you haven't downloaded the Windows installer, but only downloaded the pre-translated source files. Let us know if that's the case.
I agree with the user that says Euphoria v.4.0 is problematic, though for different reasons than those posted elsewhere.
To something is "problematic" implies that there are many problems and that the problems are inherent in the object. Is strongly disagree the Euphoria v4 is "problematic". I'm sure there are bugs still existing, just as every complex piece of software has bugs in it. But to imply that these bugs are everywhere and that they prevent the successful use of the product (i.e. problematic) is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
The only other person to mention problematic appears to be trying to use MS-DOS features from v3 that are no longer supported. This might be a problem for that person but it is not a problem with v4 itself.
What exactly are the many serious problems you are having with v4? We can't fix things if we don't know about them.
