elementaryOS guidelines for PB

[fsw]

As far as I know PureBasic does not work out of the box on "normal Linux distros.
The only exception could be "developer editions" like Scientific Linux Developer Edition were GCC and other goodies are preinstalled.
(didn't play long enough with Schientific Linux to test PB on it)

Anyway, while I'm playing with elementaryOS I will gather some information about how to make PB work on it.
(elementaryOS uses GTK3...)

Had to install the following libraries:

libgtk2.0-dev
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
libcanberra-gtk0

libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
libxxf86vm-dev

libwebkit-dev

libxine-dev

libgnomeprint2.2-dev
libgnomeprintui2.2-dev

More to follow.

[deeproot]

@fsw - is this the one you're working with http://elementaryos.org/ ? It's a new one to me!

As far as I know PureBasic does not work out of the box on "normal Linux distros.

I guess that's true, in that you need take care of the requirements and there so many different distro flavours.

Personally I'm very rusty indeed with Linux - did quite a lot about 10 years ago but not much since. Planning some PB development with testing on several distros so any additional help would be valuable. There is some good info here in the forum, but more would be interesting. Perhaps experiences could be collected as a "cook book" for various set-ups?

[Zebuddi123]

Hi to All

Just installed ElemetaryOS thanks for the link got to say very clean and nice looking distro.

Zebuddi.

[fsw]

@fsw - is this the one you're working with http://elementaryos.org/ ? It's a new one to me!

Yes this is the one.

In the past they had an add-on available for different Linux distros (user interface stuff) but now they are building a Ubuntu LTS based distro.
(it could be that if you do a search for elementary in synaptic the add-on will show up)

They have been around for awhile, but never had a point release.
As of now they have a beta and there is no date on when the full release will be out.

What they did is to work out decent Human Interface Guidelines, APIs and other stuff.
It seems that their approach is to "do it right from the ground up" instead of the "release often no matter what the quality is".

They also use GTK3, that's why I had to install the GTK2 libs.
It would be nice if PureBasic had a subsystem choice (GTK2/GTK3) like on MacOS (Carbon/Cocoa).

...Perhaps experiences could be collected as a "cook book" for various set-ups?

That's what I intended with this thread.
Feel free to talk about elementaryOS in this thread

[davido]

Hi Zebuddi123,

Did you have any trouble getting PB to install and work on the elementaryOS?

Might give it a try if its not too difficult.

[Zebuddi123]

Hi davido

No problems at all downloaded 64bit version, ran on laptop (virtualBox ) live version, then installed from there. have`nt played too much with it yet or install PB & requirements.

Zebuddi.

[davido]

Hi Zebuddi123,

Thanks very much. I'm going to give it a try.

Regards

Dave

[deeproot]

It seems that their approach is to "do it right from the ground up" instead of the "release often no matter what the quality is".

Sounds good - will certainly watch progress and check it out.

[fsw]

@PB_Team
Do you guys plan to make GTK3 the default GUI and have GTK2 be accessible through the SubSystem
(Like Cocoa and Carbon on OSX...)

Thanks for reading

BTW: this message doesn't need to be burned after reading...