[Gambas-user] Gambas on Windows - Alternative

Robert Rowe robert.c.rowe at ...626...
Fri Mar 21 19:18:59 CET 2008


I just installed it here at work and it works great.

Robert Rowe

M0E Lnx wrote:
> That's almost like running qemu or Virtualbox on windows.
>
> I used CoLinux for a while when I began my way out of windows and into Linux...
> Good for a linux newbie...
>
> But that doesn't mean gambas will be running on windows... it is
> really a Linux distro running inside a windows environment... You do
> everything like you would in Linux...
>
> You can really run just about any distro inside CoLinux if you manage
> to get your configuration and your image right... so it's really just
> Linux inside windows.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:33 AM, José Luis Redrejo <jredrejo at ...626...> wrote:
>   
>> 2008/3/21, José Luis Redrejo <jredrejo at ...626...>:
>>
>>     
>>>
>>> 2008/3/21, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>>>       
>>>> On vendredi 21 mars 2008, Daniel Campos wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if anybody wrote here about this topic, but I've just
>>>>> tested a Linux environment on Windows capable to run Gambas2 IDE and
>>>>> applications without any problem. You can find it here:
>>>>> http://www.andlinux.org (It is GPL'ed)
>>>>>
>>>>> It is based on cooperative-linux, a Linux kernel running on Windows.
>>>>> It adds a rootless X server as well as some graphical applications (or
>>>>> a complete KDE system if you want to download a 700 Mb installer).
>>>>>
>>>>> It runs Linux 32-bits binaries, and provides a basic Ubuntu system,
>>>>> that is, you just need to download Gambas packages for Ubuntu, and
>>>>> start it from a console.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anybody is interested in that project, creating a custom AndLinux
>>>>> distribution without extra stuff, just with colinux kernel, X-Server
>>>>> and the libraries needed to run Gambas2, could be a good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Compared to Cygwin systems, It works really fast, applications seem to
>>>>> be running on a native Linux system, and If you want, you can provide
>>>>> access to the entire hard disk to manage files in your system.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been testing it on my Laptop (32bits Win Vista + Intel Core Duo +
>>>>> 1GB RAM) and everything works fast and without problems. I tested the
>>>>> RAD environment and some examples (basic and networking). Both QT and
>>>>> GTK+ Gambas apps work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using that system you don't need a Linux server connected with a
>>>>> Windows+X server system, and you don't need to compile anything, just
>>>>> download your apps using apt!
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Do you have some screenshots?
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently trying to compile Gambas on Cygwin. There are a *lot* of
>>>> problems, and the cygwin architecture reveals many bugs (memory
>>>> alignment
>>>> problems at the moment). So I don't totally lost my time. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, do you think it is possible to create a andlinux distribution
>>>> with "just" Gambas, and creates an icon on the windows desktop to run a
>>>> gambas application by automatically initializing all the stuff?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I do think so, as Daniel says there's no much magic on andlinux.org. The
>>> tricky part is the kernel:http://www.colinux.org/ . Having such kernel,
>>> any distribution could be done: mandriva, debian, redhat, etc. and you only
>>> have to decide the packages to include there.
>>> It would have been a nice GSoC project but we're two weeks later for this
>>> year projects.
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, a howto to build any distribution with colinux is here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=8B83D09529A28D4E9768DBF3DC23913801A76295%40e-exch.emblazer.com
>> There is also a wikipage called "Converting distributions" describing the
>> process:
>> http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Converting_Distributions
>>
>> More info in the colinux faq:
>> http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/CoLinux_FAQ
>>
>> Regards
>> José L.
>>
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