OpenEuphoria

FreeBSD - attn Rob

• Posted by Ken Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Jan 20, 2002
• 396 views

Rob,

Are you still considering implementing a version of
Euphoria without NCurses? 

I gather from the previous postings cited below that
such a version would indeed run on many Unix clones.


On 9/30/200 Rob Craig wrote:

< I briefly considered porting Euphoria to FreeBSD, 
< but it looked like a lot of effort, given the small
< number of FreeBSD users.


On 4/17/01 Rob Craig wrote:

<There's no port to FreeBSD yet.

<I think I tried the emulation once a long time ago
<and it didn't work, but I didn't try very hard to
<make it work.

 ...

<The .c files generated by the Euphoria to C
<translator for Linux will probably compile ok, but
<some of the libraries on FreeBSD are different or
non-<existent, so linking won't work.

and of 7/26/01 Rob Craig wrote:

<...I'd also like to promote easy portability by 
< having a version of Euphoria that can be built and 
< run without ncurses even being available on the host
< Linux (or Unix) system. For instance I would 
< personally like to have a version for FreeBSD 
< (RapidEuphoria.com)that would only use STDOUT, not 
< ncurses. FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a compatible 
< ncurses