OpenEuphoria

How to install Euphoria on a USB flash drive?

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 23, 2005
• 570 views

Hi all,

I would really like to carry all my important programs and documents
with me in my pocket! This includes Euphoria, of course. 

So how can Euphoria be installed on a USB flash drive? As I see it, the
problem is how to set the PATH, EUDIR and EUINC environment variables
properly. When I connect my USB flash drive to the computer of a friend,
of course I don't want to edit the 'autoexec.bat' file and reboot the
system in order to be able to run Euphoria.

I would appreciate it very much, if someone knows a solution right now
for Eu 2.5 (or below).

If there is no solution currently, maybe something could be done in the
next Euphoria release? I think the EUDIR and EUINC variables are "only"
used by Euphoria itself. So as far as I can see it's not necessary to
implement them as environment variables. The same effect can be achieved
by a file say '.....\euphoria\bin\euphoria.ini', that contains something
like:
       [Directories]
       EUDIR=...
       EUINC=...
If I am right, this way of setting the variables is more portable than
setting these variables as environment variables of the OS.

So the remaining problem is the PATH. Well, if there is no solution, I
think for me personally this would be not a big problem (I only talk
about DOS/Windows, since I know almost nothing about Linux/FreeBSD),
becazse I can use *relative* names in batch files to call my Euphoria
programs on the USB flash drive.

What do you all think?

Regards,
   Juergen

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