[Hbasic-userinfo] Problems Compiling

[misfit-x <mis...@ph...>]

I'm having problems compiling. I've emailed the author before I figured
out how to join this list (and I see he sees/posts here too). I'll
outline my problem here though as well, but not in as full detail as I
did in my email to the author as I probably overdid it on info that
probably wasn't necessary. ?

I've downloaded both the RPM and the source tarball for HBasic last
night. Today I installed the rpm but found that while running it as a
user, a dialog popped up and said it couldn't write an error message to
a temporary file. I click OK and the IDE comes up. I click on the "Push
Button" Icon in the left toolbar and Hbasic immediately exits without
any further warning. This is repeatable.

I tried compiling the source, wondering if it would be better and found
it complained of no libmysqlclient.a. I have a few libmysqlclient.*
files on my system but not ending with the ".a" extension. I decided to
upgrade from MySQL 3.23 (which comes with the RH9 distro I use) to MySQL
4.1. After such, I still get the same warnings. I have the server,
client, devel, and compatible libraries installed. To be exact:

php-mysql-4.2.2-17
mod_auth_mysql-1.11-12
MySQL-server-4.0.17-0
MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.17-0
perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1021-3
MySQL-client-4.0.17-0
MySQL-devel-4.0.17-0

So I had the idea to pop a root term and try running hbasic from the
shell prompt (from the rpm installation, since I couldn't get past
./configure with the sources).  When I did this, it complained of an
undefined symbol called "_ZNK9QCheckBox9hitButtonERK6QPoint". After
trying to put a pushbutton on the form again, it again exited suddenly
and I found a "reallocation error" at the shell prompt citing the same
undefined symbol.

Does anyone know of a fix for this or how I can get the program to
compile from source code?

I'm a (former) Visual Basic 3/5/6 programmer and would like to convert
some of my code to Linux until I can learn C++ and convert some of my
stuff to that format. I like what I did get to see of HBasic from the
site and screen shots. Would love to get this running on my system.

Thanks for any help anyone can give...

.:: misfit-x ::.