[Gambas-user] Executable still will not execute

[Eldon Eller]

Thanks, Benoit. That fixed it. You are a prince. EEE

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:01, Eldon Eller wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Benoit. I have attached the archive. Perhaps a word of
>> explanation would help: The program is essentially a card file, or
>> rather a bunch of card files. Each file *.dex is a card file written in
>> plain text with a sentry ("*" & chr$(13) & chr$(10)) to separate cards.
>> I have set up a dual boot system with a fat partition (/windows/F) that
>> windows and linux can use to share data. I have a VB version of the same
>> program in windows. Two or three years ago I wrote a linux version that
>> worked as expected. As a result of a disk failure and bad habits, I lost
>> that version and recently re-wrote it. This is the one that I cannot get
>> to execute.
>>
>> Benoit Minisini wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:02, Eldon Eller wrote:
>>>       
>>>> At the risk of repeating myself, I have a little project named QD that
>>>> runs properly from within the IDE. I have made an executable, and when I
>>>> try to run it I get this message:
>>>>
>>>> This application has raised an unexpected error and must abort.
>>>> [2] Cannot load class 'QD': Unable to load class file.
>>>> ?.?.0
>>>>
>>>> The project files are attached. They are stored in ~/QDfolder/QD. The
>>>> file QD was generated by make executable. Not included here is a file
>>>> ~/QDfolder/QD/.gambas/QD. I can send it if it will help. My version of
>>>> Gambas is 1.0.17. I get the error message when I try to run
>>>> ~/QDfolder/QD/QD. If I open Gambas , choose QD from recent projects, and
>>>> click on the green run triangle, the program executes correctly. If you
>>>> need more info, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> The files are somewhat different than those included with my earlier
>>>> plea. In trying to get things to work, I ended up destroying the
>>>> QD.class file and had to re-write the whole thing.
>>>>
>>>> No doubt I am making some dumb error, but I am at my wit's end and
>>>> eagerly await any suggestions. EEE
>>>>         
>>> Can you send an archive of your project (Menu Project/Make source archive
>>> in the IDE) ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>       
>
> I found: it is a completely stupid bug in the archiver, that don't put in the 
> executable a class file if its name is the same as the project name.
>
> As a workaround, just rename your class or your project so that they don't 
> have the same name.
>
> Regards,
>
>