Re: Euphoria and BeOs!
At 01:28 PM 22-03-1999 , you wrote:
>Daniel Berstein wrote:
>
>> Go get Be... it will change your life :)
>> ...
>> I heard SciTech is releasing soon a BeOs release,
>> that means universal video support.
>
>I ran across a $30 book on programming the BeOS, and I was tempted to buy it
>- it included a version of the OS. I assume that it was time limited or
>something. But I'm busy enough at the moment with Linux and other projects.
The demo version is the same as the retail, but can't be installed on your
hdd, it boots directly from your CD. I don't know wich version you almost
evaluated, but in case you are tempted again be sure to get the latest
version (currently 4.0, AKA R4).
>I don't know what kind of bindings (DLL, etc) Be supports. I'm assuming that
Shared libraries... just like Linux. Elf is the executable format. The
development is based on GNU EGCS tools. Unfortunalty it seems that for
native GUI apps (not shell) you'll need to mess with C++, the OS is
completly OO. That's great for an OS, performance, etc, but not for me... I
hate (don't understand, yet) C++ ;)
>Rob's Linux port of Euphoria helped shake off some of the DOS/Win32
>dependancies built into Euphoria. I'm hoping that Robert ends up with a more
>portable version of Euphoria as a result.
That would be nice.
>It would be nice to see Euphoria running on Be. There's currently work being
>done on porting MGL to wxWindows, and I'm looking at adding wxWindows
>support to Win32Lib. That means (in a roundabout way) that I might be able
>to get the wxWindows version of Win32Lib to run under the BeOs using MGL...
>ick.
I know SciTech is working on Display Doctor for Be, from a SciTech post on
a Be message board... no idea about MGL already been ported to Be. But what
I do know is that a GTK port is under development.
>Have you tried to port Pete's Peuphoria over to Be yet? It doesn't look like
>Pete's done a lot to it lately, although I hope he keeps the project up.
>I'll have to take a look at Peuphoria and see how compatible it is with
>Win32Lib. I don't think he's implemented any graphics yet, and I rely pretty
>heavily on routine_id, which I also thing are not yet implemented.
Bet on that! That why I'm so excited with Be. Just typed MAKE and PEU was
built without one single warning message. And it runs OK. There's much work
to do on PEU, but that's a begining. The important thing is a portable code
base, that can be built unmodified on Linux, (DR)DOS, BeOs, and more to
come :)
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
[ daber at pair.com ]
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