Re: Linux
Pete wrote:
>Hey cool... ever since David retired Gnuphoria, I've missed the
>competitive coding spirit of porting Euphoria to other platforms.
I've been tempted multiple times to start up Gnuphoria again - especially
when Rob mentions anything about the internals of Euphoria.
In fact, I pulled it out a couple of days ago and looked through it. I was
getting impatient for your Mac port, and wondered if I should start up work
again. There are a lot of ideas that I had for the interpreter that were
left uncoded.
I'd claim that my workload on Win32Lib/Dos32Lib is what keeps me from
starting up Gnuphoria again, but it's something simpler than that: I can't
find a free Mac compiler that I can use on my 68K Mac. That, and the joy of
casting, and recasting C pointers.
>I feel like a C programmer alone in a dark corner while the
>other Euphorians scurry about in the green pastures of
>sequences and run-time error checking.
I can relate. 
>I've got a reference on XLib programming and am starting to work
>through it. The way I see doing it would be to hardcode the X window calls
>wrapped in C as builtin procedures, with a Dos32Lib interface. Now
>wouldn't that be snazzy?
And I just when I gave back the Reference Zero book (it documents the
low-level XLib calls)...
One of the biggest problems with XLib programming will probably be a lack of
documentation. Good books on X Windows coding are rare; good XLib books seem
to be virtually non-existant. Time to start scouring the 'Net.
On the other hand, it's clearly the most portable option - and the one that
creates the smallest executable.
Let me know when you have something to play with, and I'll get Linux
reinstalled on my computer again.
>Progress [on the Mac port] is slow. I tried compiling an older
>version on mac and got some neato compile errors. No big
>surprise there. I'll try out my newer unreleased version sometime
>later.
A possible Mac port! WooHoo!
I hope it'll run on a 68000 Mac for poor people like me with archaic
machines. Then I'll have to compete with my kids for use of the Mac.
-- David Cuny
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