Troubles compilling (linux), UTF-8 support?

[Ldo Gabriel Worst]

Hello Dr.
First, congratulations for keeping the good work.

I'm using, from time to time, x11basic for some admiistrators task in a
Linux enviroment, based first in RedHat5 (6: 7) and Debian Sarge (3) ; 4, 5
y 6.
Everty time I cyhanged de distribution, I have had troubles, for maykng the
xbasic work, specailly about readline.

I have just, after a crash installed a Debian 9.1 distribution. I Find
impossible to ionstall de X11Basic, and its a headache for me, I'd like a
lot some help. These are the symptoms:

• deb package can't be installed, because of failed dependencies:
  libreadline6 required, but Debian distribution comes with version 7m and
  you can also install 5, but not the 6. It seems to have no solution por me

• compilling issues: configure and make, did the work, but make install
  didn't

Any help would be apreciated

Thanks a lot

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[Markus Hoffmann]

Hi Gabriel,

have you tried a

sudo make install

? What error message do you get?

You can also try a quick-and-dirty install like:

make xbasic.static
sudo mv xbasic.static /usr/bin/xbasic

Maybe this works?

[Anonymous]

Hello again. Thank you very much for your help. And sorry my mistakes and typewritting erros made before. I'm very busy these days.

I found the troubles are all related to directories (icons, applications) an examples, that are not created in the proccess but needed. I made them manually and the install procces almost finished well, with the exception of the libx11basci, I put the, again manuyally in the /usr/lib, and then all seems to work.

Also creating xbasic.static works great, and It seems perhaps it's a better solution for people like me, turning aplications from one machine to another.

Nice to see you here making this great piece of software. I think it should be included as a Debian distribution package, as the other tiny basic inside are worst, and this one has great features (even portability) and its own personality.

Also, better integration with de xwindows (specially ability of using clipboard) and a form editor, would make it a must to have package.

Thanks a lot.

[Anonymous]

Uhm. Wait a while.
There is still something wrong. I can't opne any code with graphics, it seems the library is not working. Only consele aplications works. Don't know what to do. Any help again would be apreciated.

[Anonymous]

Hello again , here is the config.log
Thanks a lot.

[Anonymous]

Solved!!

Forget previous emails. I've solved making a libreadline6 to be included in de Debian, and generating a symbolic linf from /usr/local/bin/xbasic to /usr/bin. Now all seems to work.

By the other hand, I'd like to ask the las question. Are there any replacemente for nedit highlighting? I've benn looking for something, as I see that no, forced to work in UTF-8, it's impossible tu use the spanish áéíóúñÁÉÍÓÚÑ¡¿ inside nedit.
Thanks a lot

[Markus Hoffmann]

OK, good to hear. Sorry for not having approved your (anonymous) posts. Sourceforge has not notified me about them.

[Markus Hoffmann]

Converning editor alternatives with UTF-8 support:
You could use gedit. However there is no special syntax highlighting definition for this (yet). Also pico/nano now has syntax highlighting, but somebody would have to make a definition file for them ....

[Markus Hoffmann]

I am proud to announce that we now have syntax highlighting files for gedit and nano.