Re: [Factor-talk] Can't get Space Invaders to run

[Slava P. <sl...@fa...>]

Hi John,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:45 PM, John Porubek <jpo...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for the response. So I was barking up the wrong tree, huh?
> Nothing new there. Good thing I asked the question. Isn't there some
> way I can use Factor's built-in debugging support to at least tell me
> which specific image is not being found so I could have more of a clue
> as to what's going wrong?

There's code in the git repository for this. We should have a Windows
binary soon.

> I also tried to get it working in Windows 7 after I downloaded and
> installed "oalinst" and "freealut-1.1,0-bin". The installer put the
> "OpenAL32.dll" file in C:\Windows\System32, so I put "alut.dll" there,
> too. However, the examples that came with "freealut" wouldn't work
> until I put "alut.dll" in C:\Windows, so I put a copy of
> "OpenAL32.dll" there, too.  No joy. I still get the same "The image
> refers to a library or symbol that was not found at load time"
> message.

Is your copy of Factor a 64-bit build? If so, the libraries have to be
64-bit (or vice versa).

> But I'm mostly happy to have it working under Linux. I prefer Linux
> for most of my development work and I've come to accept that Windows
> is sort of the "poor step child" in the world of Factor. Examples of
> this are the lack of real serial port support for Windows and the fact
> that none of the demo slide shows display properly under Windows.

Other than that, most things do work on Windows. I forgot about the
slide show thing; I'll file a bug about it.

Cheers,

Slava