OpenEuphoria

Re: exu not working

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Feb 06, 2003
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Good luck. After months of working with exu on remote nix boxen, i gave up, 
it never worked right. Even after i gave the account password to the gurus 
here.

Kat

On 6 Feb 2003, at 22:21, tubby.toast at ntlworld.com wrote:

> 
> > Hmm .... Does it have correct execute permissions? In which context does
> > exu work, and in which does it fail (besides in the cgi scrips)?
> >
> Permissions for exu are 755.  exu doesn't work at all.  Like I say, just
> entering "exu" at the command prompt does absolutely nothing; I just get the
> prompt again as if I had merely pressed enter.  And, using "echo $?" I get an
> exit code of 127.
> 
> > Do the scripts themselves have correct execute permission? What user owns
> > the
> > scripts/exu, and what user is running it? What is the first line of
> the
> > scripts?
> >
> This should all be ok.  At the moment I'm just trying to get the interpreter
> running on its own.  The owner is "chrissy" and that is who I log on as over
> telnet.
> 
> > As to which libraries are required for exu, I don't rememeber all of them,
> > sorry, the big one was ncurses, which is a pain really. (I went as far as
> > writing a huge wrapper to allow Linux Euphoria programs to use plain I/O by
> > redefining a bunch of builtins and interfacing directly with glibc...
> > however,
> > that doesn't solve dependancy errors caused by a lack of ncurses on a
> > machine.
> > Rather annoying, really ... :/)
> 
> Can Rob or anyone else with the source tell me?  Even if I do find out it's
> going to be difficult to do much since it's not my system and tech support are
> pretty unresponsive.  I can't afford to move hosts right now and anyway I
> doubt
> anyone would let me "test-drive" Euphoria on their system before I pay up.
> 
> Is 2.4 going to be more compatible?  I'd prefer not to wait but if it's that
> or
> learn Perl...
> 
> chris.
> 
> 
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