4.10 Beta 4 not running in wine

hardfalcon · Post by **hardfalcon** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Hi, I just noticed beta 4 of version 4.10 isn't running in wine. The IDE simply hangs after it was loaded, not even the cursor is redrawn...
Wine only gives out the same warnings about some icons it can't find it also gave with other, working versions of the IDE, too.
Would be a pity if I couldn't run it on wine anymore...

//EDIT: I'm using version 0.9.48 of wine.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:53 pm

The Windows version of PB won't run on an OS it wasn't intended to run on?

hardfalcon · Post by **hardfalcon** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:01 pm

Would be nice if it did, though...
Why should I waste several gigabytes with a windows installation just to be able to compile my programs for windows?

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:05 pm

The Windows version won't run on DOS either, but it doesn't mean its a bug

Cross-compiling would be nice, but Fred and Freak have continually nixed the idea

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:30 pm

What about running the compiler from the command line under Wine - it might be the way the IO is piped between the IDE and the compiler causing it to fail?

(I'm only guessing - does Wine give you an emulated Windows command prompt too or does it just remap API calls?)

@Brice: Cross compiling would be nice but since PB relies on 3rd party assemblers and linkers they would have to exist as cross versions too (that was the reason I got when I asked about it).

GedB · Post by **GedB** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:29 pm

More of a feature request than a bug.

PB · Post by PB » Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:54 am

> The Windows version of PB won't run on an OS it wasn't intended to run on?

Wine is not Windows. It's just an attempt to be. Not a bug at all.

#NULL · Post by **#NULL** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:09 am

well, maybe it's a wine bug

PB · Post by PB » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:57 am

Yes, it's a Wine bug, because obviously Wine is not doing something that it
should to allow PureBasic to run. And that's not PureBasic's problem at all.

hardfalcon · Post by **hardfalcon** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:28 pm

The stable version is running flawlessly, though...

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:33 pm

Just some noise from me...

Isn't the 4.1 version supposed to be nice to Vista?

Could this not be the irritability issue in wine? It don't like the Vista things in the new PB???

lexvictory · Post by **lexvictory** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:03 am

definitely wine's fault.
ive got wine version 0.9.47, and the compiler crashes after some commands in standby mode...

to see what i mean:
open a console and cd into an installed windows pb compilers directory
(eg ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Purebasic/Compilers)
run export PUREBASIC_HOME=../
then run wine PBCompiler.exe /standby
it should start correctly, so type FUNCTIONSLIST and press enter
it should give u the list, then go back to the command line...

does this happen for anyone else?
or does anyone know how to fix it?

Flaming Amoeba · Post by **Flaming Amoeba** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:52 pm

or does anyone know how to fix it?

Quit trying to run the Windows version of PureBasic on an unsupported OS (Linux)?

If you are having problems with Wine, posting on the Wine forums would help you more and the guys behind Wine are usually pretty good about fixing bugs in a timely manner.

Coolman · Post by **Coolman** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:06 pm

Virtualbox, it's free (opensource gpl)
vmplayer freeware