OpenEuphoria

Re: Getting started in Linux

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> May 22, 2005
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Stephen O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the help Mario,
> 
> the solution you gave me seemed to have fixed my "exu" problem. However,
> you say that the garbled mess I get when I try to run programs cannot be
> overcome.
> When I try to run the demo linux programs supplied, I get gobble-di-goop. I 
> can't decypher what's happening on the screen, this will make learning
> Euphoria
> pretty though, and pretty pointless if I can't get programs to display 
> meaningful data on the screen. Can Euphoria for Linux generate graphical 
> output (i.e. windows, message boxes and the like) as it can in the Windows 
> version?
> 

Yes, there are several libraries for that, for example wxEuphoria and euGTK.

Then I want to point out that that problem with garbled text does not exist on
Debian (which I am using, :P to Euman :), however, to make exu work in an xterm
and compatible terms in Debian, you'll have to execute:

export TERM=ansi

This is because exu is linked with old versions of everything... therefore, if
you attempt to translate and compile a euphoria program, this problem will go
away. Maybe doing export TERM=ansi on Fedora will fix it there too? Then you
could also try running exu in a real console as opposed to a console emulator.
That is, (sorry if I insult your intelligence now, from what I've seen you seem
to be a linux newbie) press CTRL-ALT-F1/F2/F3 etc to access one of them.

Then a comment on your original post: If you have exu in the current directory,
you can't just type exu and press enter to start it. You'll have to type ./exu
and press enter. This may seem stupid, but it has something to do with security.

Regards, Alexander Toresson