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Post by TexasPete on Jan 9th, 2014, 1:11pm
Richard, I appreciated your help on the lb forums. Soon, I will be compiling my large lb programs with lb Booster. I was wondering if Lb Booster runs on linix under wine. Do you happen to know?
Texas Pete
Re: Help with lb
Post by Richard Russell on Jan 9th, 2014, 2:33pm
Soon, I will be compiling my large lb programs with lb Booster. I was wondering if Lb Booster runs on linix under wine. Do you happen to know?
I haven't personally tried it. I have received reports that programs compiled using LBB run OK, but I am not sure about LBB itself. In any case I would expect you to need a recent version of Wine (1.5 or later) to ensure that graphics work correctly.
Richard. Re: Help with lb
Post by Richard Russell on Jan 12th, 2014, 1:31pm
Soon, I will be compiling my large lb programs with lb Booster.
Do report any problems (preferably by email). Both the large commercial applications recently ported to LBB raised a few issues which needed my attention - either in tweaking LBB itself or in suggesting workarounds for minor compatibility issues.
Richard.
Re: Help with lb
Post by net2014 on Jan 12th, 2014, 2:47pm
All programs compliled with LBB have worked ok for me under linux/WINE, so far.
However, Texas Pete's query prompted me to try and run LBB in WINE and it would not start. It brings up a notification titled BBCWrun and msg text 'Cannot create file' followed by a long file path which begins C:\users\<username>\Temp and ends LBLIBC.BBC. The path is too long to fully display. The only other info I can give is that the \<username>\Temp folder does exist and a few BBCnnnn.tmp folders have been created..
Re: Help with lb
Post by Richard Russell on Jan 12th, 2014, 3:40pm
Texas Pete's query prompted me to try and run LBB in WINE and it would not start. It brings up a notification titled BBCWrun and msg text 'Cannot create file'
I had expected that, because I knew LBB used to be affected by this Wine bug and I hadn't received any notification of it being fixed.
It's rated as a 'major' bug so hopefully somebody from the Wine community will feel motivated to fix it sooner or later, but obviously it's entirely out of my hands.
I would suggest (as I think I have done before) that everybody who would like LBB to run under Wine registers on Bugzilla and adds their vote.
Richard.
Re: Help with lb
Post by net2014 on Jan 12th, 2014, 3:53pm
Richard,
Noted!
Would it be possible to manually create the necessary folders before first run or is it more complex than that? Even then do folders need to be created on the fly during compilation?
Just a thought.
Re: Help with lb
Post by Richard Russell on Jan 12th, 2014, 5:38pm
Would it be possible to manually create the necessary folders before first run or is it more complex than that?
Manually creating the folder may work - depending on which one it is! I think LBB creates two folders, and one of them has a different name each time you run it (the GetTempFileName API is used to determine the name); if that's the one causing the error you're stuck. But if the troublesome folder is the one with the fixed name ('\lib' I think) the technique may be successful.
Let us know if you can make it work.
Richard.
Re: Help with lb
Post by net2014 on Jan 12th, 2014, 6:40pm
If I knew the folder name I would give it a try, but the path is truncated in the notice window :
Also the BBCnnnn.tmp folder name changes each time LBB is run so I guess that would prevent manual creation of folders. The created folder only contains a zero byte text file named '$'
Probably a no-goer then.
Re: Help with lb
Post by Richard Russell on Jan 12th, 2014, 9:39pm
