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TexasPete
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Help with lb
« Thread started on: Jan 9th, 2014, 1:11pm » |
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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?
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Richard Russell
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #1 on: Jan 9th, 2014, 2:33pm » |
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on Jan 9th, 2014, 1:11pm, TexasPete wrote:| 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? |
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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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #2 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 1:31pm » |
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on Jan 9th, 2014, 1:11pm, TexasPete wrote:| Soon, I will be compiling my large lb programs with lb Booster. |
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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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #3 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 2:47pm » |
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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..
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Richard Russell
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #4 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 3:40pm » |
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on Jan 12th, 2014, 2:47pm, net2014 wrote:| 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' |
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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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #5 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 3:53pm » |
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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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #6 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 5:38pm » |
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on Jan 12th, 2014, 3:53pm, net2014 wrote:| Would it be possible to manually create the necessary folders before first run or is it more complex than that? |
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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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #7 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 6:40pm » |
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If I knew the folder name I would give it a try, but the path is truncated in the notice window :
C:\user\<username>\Temp\BBC1570.tmp\....\lib\LBLIBC.BBC
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.
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #8 on: Jan 12th, 2014, 9:39pm » |
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on Jan 12th, 2014, 6:40pm, net2014 wrote:| If I knew the folder name I would give it a try |
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You can create the folder by entering the following at a Windows command prompt, and pressing Enter:
Code:
Is that sufficient to make LBB run?
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #9 on: Jan 13th, 2014, 4:31pm » |
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Good news! Yes, manually creating \Temp\lib folder enables LBB to run in linux/WINE 1.4.1
I also compiled a bas file and the exe ran perfectly.
The lib folder incidently is empty!
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #10 on: Jan 13th, 2014, 5:39pm » |
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on Jan 13th, 2014, 4:31pm, net2014 wrote:| The lib folder incidently is empty! |
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Only after LBB has quit and 'cleaned up after itself', I hope! There should definitely be files there whilst it is running 
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Re: Help with lb
« Reply #11 on: Jan 13th, 2014, 6:34pm » |
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on Jan 13th, 2014, 5:39pm, Richard Russell wrote:Only after LBB has quit and 'cleaned up after itself', I hope! There should definitely be files there whilst it is running
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Confirmed.
Must remember the workaround now. 
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