[Gambas-user] knoppix-knoppel

[Ron Onstenk]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:06, ilias iliadis wrote:
> Sorry for the inconvenience
> but I do not have internet access so I do not read or write so many mails.
> Any way I would like to be informed if it is difficult to make a program in gambas
> (it will not use the disk which it might be an XP with NTFS)  run from a knoppix -knoppel(greek knoppix) without much effort?
> Thanks anyway
> ilias iliadis
> 

Maybe a reformat of the question.
> Any way I would like to be informed if it is difficult to make a program in gambas
> without much effort?  
> 
> (it will not use the disk which it might be an XP with NTFS)  run from a knoppix -knoppel(greek knoppix)

The answer for the first part is what experience you have with programming technics,
the same for the Basic language and for most things logical thinking is not unknown.
So without much effort can't be really say'd.
You need at least learn the proper syntax to use and for the graphical components
the behaviour of the events fired by them.

To say 'it is difficult' is not true but it is also not always easy.
Depends on what you want to do. 
MS VB experience can help but as I found myself it can be many times 
also lead you to wrong things in program structure and assumptions. :(
The working environment is total different, only the basics of Basic are
more or less common.

For the second part. 
During development there will be a directory used in the /tmp directory
and some data in the users home directory.
If you mean a Live CD of knoppix then that would be not a real problem.
But be carefull anyway.

But the bad thing is you need the runtime libraries and they must be
created/compiled on the system, or 100% equivalent, that wants to run gambas.

The source tarbal is between 7 and 9 MByte but 
decompressed you must count for at least 38Mbyte.
After compiling there is around 100MBytes used.
After the install phase think about 25MBytes/30MB
This is for the Gambas2 version 1.9.31, Gambas(1) may a few MByte less.
So before all is ready you need 8+38+100+25 is +/- 160Mbyte on disk/ramdisk.
After install you can clean up and it will cost you around 28MBytes

If you have 128Mbyte Ram I can save say "Do not even try it"
If you have 512Mbyte Ram You got my well wishes to do.

So for the second part, if the knoppix-knoppel does not have gambas
for running included, do your own choice.

If not then you must use a part of the alien OS NTFS disk for the
compile and storage of gambas or do you want every time to 
download/compile/install again on each boot?
  
Greets from Holland

Ron