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Brian Pickrell
2025-01-15
2025-01-15

  • Brian Pickrell

    Brian Pickrell - 2025-01-15

    It's crazy to get blocked from trying Minsky over such a basic question, but HOW DO YOU START THE PROGRAM? I've been searching through .md files and other documentation, and the most I can get is that I need to click on the icon I downloaded. Well, the file I downloaded is a .tar archive, and if I click on it the computer will unzip it, but I still can't find an executable to run. Can someone point me to instructions that don't assume the reader already has it running, which I'm sure must exist?

    I also tried building the code from source, to no avail. I found a terse mention that there are prerequisite packages that must be installed first, but no clear listing of what they are or how (command line syntax) to install them.

    Any help is appreciated. I'm eager to try Minsky!

     

    • High Performance Coder

      High Performance Coder - 2025-01-15

      On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:24:43AM -0000, Brian Pickrell wrote:

      It's crazy to get blocked from trying Minsky over such a basic question, but
      HOW DO YOU START THE PROGRAM? I've been searching through .md files and other
      documentation, and the most I can get is that I need to click on the icon I
      downloaded. Well, the file I downloaded is a .tar archive, and if I click on it
      the computer will unzip it, but I still can't find an executable to run. Can
      someone point me to instructions that don't assume the reader already has it
      running, which I'm sure must exist?

      I also tried building the code from source, to no avail. I found a terse
      mention that there are prerequisite packages that must be installed first, but
      no clear listing of what they are or how (command line syntax) to install them.

      Any help is appreciated. I'm eager to try Minsky!

      You can build the code from sources (the tarball that you downloaded),
      but it is not for the faint hearted. The specific details of how to do
      that differ from operating system to operating system, so all that can
      be offered in the "recipe" is "breadcrumbs", guidance notes that will
      help someone familiar with compiling other open source packages. It is
      not for the faint hearted, however. Even after doing it for more than
      a decade, it still takes me half a day to get a completely fresh
      computer system set up to build Minsky. For someone not so familiar,
      it can take days - even if you're a professional programmer.

      Instead, you can download prebuilt versions of the latest Minsky for
      Windows and Mac from https://patreon.com/Ravelation , for the princely
      sum of US $1 per month. The money helps defray the costs of
      maintaining the Windows/Mac builds, and for most people represents a
      good deal :). If you're a Linux user, check out the OpenSUSE Build
      system https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:hpcoder1/minsky .

      There are also some old (now a year old) Windows and Mac builds
      available in the SourceForge file release system. As time goes on I'll
      update those to more recent obsolete builds. It serves as a valuable
      repository of historical built versions.

      --

      Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile)
      Principal, High Performance Coders hpcoder@hpcoders.com.au
      http://www.hpcoders.com.au

       

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