OpenEuphoria on USB Pendrive

Try O[ programming without installing anything on your computer--create a USB pendrive programming environment.

Here are instructions that Windows users will find convenient.

You will need:

• Slax download
• OpenEuphoria download
• USB Pendrive

Slax Installation

Download Slax

• • Navigate: To the Slax website www.slax.org
  • Click on: Download
  • Choose: Download for USB ZIP format
  • Choose: Slax language
  • Choose: between 32 bit and 64 bit

Prepare a pendrive

• • Format as fat32
  • Label the drive: OpenEuphoria Slax

Extract Slax

• • Open the .zip with an archive manager (like winzip).
  • Extract downloaded files to pendrive.
  • extraction options to consider:
    extract to the top level (not into a subfolder)
    preserve paths when extracting

Make pendrive bootable

• • Read the instructions found in slax.txt of your pendrive.
  • effectively you double click on the file slax/boot/bootinst.bat, and the pendrive becomes bootable

Test Slax Linux

• • Check your computer bios to make sure it can boot from a USB device.
  • Boot Slax from USB pendrive.

OpenEuphoria Installation

Download OpenEuphoria

• • Navigate: To the O[ webside: www.openeuphoria.org
  • Select: The downloads tab
  • Choose: A Debian Package (.deb) format
  • Choose: Between 32 bit and 64 bit

Convert .deb to Slax .sb format.

• • Launch Slax
  • Navigate: To where you downloaded the O[ .deb file using the File Manager.
  • Right Click: On the panel containing the O[ .deb file
  • Select: Actions/Open Terminal Here (You will see a black window labeled slax bash - Konsole )
  • For example if the O[ version is 32 bit,
    then at the prompt type:

deb2sb euphoria_4.0.4_i366.deb 

• • After some activity you end up with an .sb file.
  • Notice: That the location of the file is: /tmp
    The file is:
    /tmp/euphoria-4.0.6-i386.sb
    You can find this file by clicking on the red Root icon of the file manager.
  • Check: Your USB drive should have a copy of this file in:
    /slax/modules/euphoria-4.0.5-i386.sb
    (When an .sb module file is in the /slax/modules directory it will automatically load each time Slax boots.)

Test the Demos

Test OpenEuphoria

• • Open: A Konsole ( like from the black >- icon in the main menu.)
  • Type: eui at the prompt
  • Look:

Euphoria Interpreter v4.0.5 
   Linux, Using System Memory 
   Revision Date: 2012-10-15, Id: 62d94559f849 
    
ERROR: Must specify the file to be interpreted on the command line 

Congratulations.

You are now ready to start O[ programming.

• • The Advanced Text Editor called Kate is ready for O[.
    Files written with .e and .ex file extensions will be syntax colored.

Start Exploring.

• • Navigate:
    

Open a file:

• • single right click,
    then: Open With / Kate
    
    (The file is opened with Kate.)

• • double right click on an .ex file
    
    (The file is opened with KWrite.)

• • Examine the source-code.

Open a Konsole

• • right click on the filemanager panel
  • select: actions / Open Terminal Here
  • At the prompt type eui followed by a program name.
  • See: O[ in action.