OpenEuphoria

Re: ecu, SuSE 10 64 bit

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Apr 24, 2006
• 1047 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> Problem report
> 
> Translating an exu file with ecu, then compiling and linking,
> then running the file produces a segmentation fault.
> 
> Output of emake/linking object files would seem to indicate that ncurses
> static
> library is incompatible with linking with object files compiled with 64 bit
> GCC ver 4.02
> 
> This is surprising, as gcc and the ncurses libraries are both installed from
> the installation DVD (downloaded from opensuse)
> 
> I shall do some more investigating, but suspect that this may actually be 
> the beginning of the end of statically linked ncurses in general linux
> programs any way.
> 
> Even more reason to look forward to the ncurses free Euphoria.
> 
> As an aside, having just installed SuSE 10, its a breeze, runs like a charm,
> KDE is beautiful, the only downside being mp3 / mpeg support, which you have
> to
> get from other sources.
> 
> Exu runs fine when TERM=xterm, or TERM=linux, but for some reason corrupts the
> display when running a bound file if TERM=xterm - easy enough to fix, just
> run from a script, adding the line export TERM=linux. Suspect this goes back
> to ncurses again.

Thanks for the info.
Hopefully I'll get a non-ncurses Euphoria out soon.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com