OpenEuphoria

Re: Source changes

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail?com> Jul 05, 2007
• 593 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > CChris wrote:
> > > 
> > > <side question>
> > > How can I build exu under Windows?
> > > </side quetion>
> > > 
> > 
> > The easiest way is probably to install the VMWare player and a linux vm.
> > That's what I do (for FreeBSD, too).
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> Thanks, I'll try that, waiting probably next weekend. I expect to get access
> to some shell from which to run imakeu (say) and test the generated exu, am
> I right? Or is it just opening a Unix-intended file with "linuvm.exe" or
> whatever
> it's named?

Basically, you install the VMWare player (free, but you have to register), 
and then you need to download a VMWare appliance--many are available only
through bittorent.  You open the appliance with the player, and then you
have a virtualized OS.  I'd also recommend WinSCP for transferring files
between your host OS and the guest.  You'll need a fair amount of free HD
space.  The appliance is basically self contained, and are often several 
GBs, especially after you've used them and put stuff in them.  

I've been using the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) and the FreeBSD 6.2 appliances.  
Note that getting FreeBSD set up is a bit more work than Feisty.  You 
will probably want to reconfigure the display (the default is something 
like 1024x480).  Here's a link to a howto for changing this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83973

You can try to use Rob's shell scripts, although I've never gotten them to
work properly for me, which is why I wrote the Makefiles.  Take a look at
the file 'Makefile' in the source directory, but basically, you just go
to that directory and type 'make' at the prompt to make the interpreter.

Note that you may need to install some additional development packages from
your distribution's package manager (like for gpm).  Many distros don't 
have all of the header files, etc that you'll need installed by default.


It's not exactly trivial to get all set up to do development on linux,
especially if you don't have any linux experience, but it's definitely
a good learning experience, and shouldn't be too hard for most people,
once they start to figure out the linux way of doing things.

Matt