A 50:50 Ratio Getting PBCompiler to Load So Far
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:56 pm
				
				I'm learning some important things about PureBasic.  I just learned about $HOME+"/.purebasic/purebasic.prefs" (Linux version) where you can get answers about things like window size, files recently accessed, files currently accessed, font used and size, and whether a window is maximized or not.  At least as far as the Editor and Debug Output windows are concerned.  You can also make changes there, so be cautious.  If you screw up, just delete the folder and it's contained files, and on the next load, the IDE will regenerate it.  But you lose your custom settings, so might be best to back up this folder or these files first before tweaking them directly.  This file also has $HOME and the current path in it.
But since I upgraded to 5.40, I've had two of four installs of PureBasic report that the compiler did not load when I tried to compile and run an example program. This is for three partitions on my old laptop and one on my new. Three are 64-bit versions of Ubuntu and one 32-bit version. One of the failures was the 32-bit version, so it is not specific to the compressed file I used. Once I reach that failure point, I get the same failure when I try to rename the parent folder for purebasic (now purebasic.old) and delete .purebasic and re-extract the compressed tgz file, or when I try to revert to 5.31. Wherever the impact happens, it is apparently not in these areas. It could be at the root level. Let me try that real quick.
No, walking the paths returned, I only find two folders involved.  But that does not preclude a bad reference to a path statement where purebasic tries to load pbcompiler, and that would be internal to some file.  So let's see if I can find where "/pbcompiler" is used.
This searsh has been going on for hours, and could take hours more. So to bring an end to this post, let's just say that I want to know why the IDE complains the compiler isn't getting loaded, and what I can do about it.
			But since I upgraded to 5.40, I've had two of four installs of PureBasic report that the compiler did not load when I tried to compile and run an example program. This is for three partitions on my old laptop and one on my new. Three are 64-bit versions of Ubuntu and one 32-bit version. One of the failures was the 32-bit version, so it is not specific to the compressed file I used. Once I reach that failure point, I get the same failure when I try to rename the parent folder for purebasic (now purebasic.old) and delete .purebasic and re-extract the compressed tgz file, or when I try to revert to 5.31. Wherever the impact happens, it is apparently not in these areas. It could be at the root level. Let me try that real quick.
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sudo updatedb;  sudo locate purebasic > 1.tmp; sort -n 1.tmp > 2.tmp; cat 2.tmp | lessThis searsh has been going on for hours, and could take hours more. So to bring an end to this post, let's just say that I want to know why the IDE complains the compiler isn't getting loaded, and what I can do about it.