[Gambas-user] Gambas on Windows

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 10.01.20 um 06:07 schrieb Admin:
> I am using Gambas to write programs for Windows for quite some time now. 
> It is excellent. Before I had to port everything to Visual Basic, then I 
> used the way, which to this day is official - Cygwin. But for a long 
> time now, since you don't even have to be a Windows Insider Preview 
> member to install WSL on Windows 10, everybody can do it in one click 
> using Windows Store, software just works. I just use simple kernel 
> version detection like this:
> 
> Dim kernel As String
> Dim isWindows As Boolean
> Shell "uname -a" To kernel
> If InStr(kernel, "Microsoft") Then isWindows = True
> 
> Knowing I am in Windows I can call any exe file I want, for example 
> Shell("notepad.exe") just opens Windows Notepad. I can also call any 
> console Windows command like ping.exe and pipe it right away like 
> ping.exe 10.10.10.1 | grep Destination - and it works perfectly.
> 
> I use Xming started with Windows startup and create .lnk Desktop 
> Shortcuts to my graphical software simply like this:
> 
> C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe DISPLAY=:0 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 myprogramm.gambas
> 
> so my software written in Gambas just runs on Windows Desktop by simply 
> double-clicking it. It's that simple
> 
> So, my point is: isn't it time to officialy call it a way to run Gambas 
> in Windows instead of Cygwin? I mean I know, that Cygwin is more 
> universal, but it also is more complicated and Windows 10 became defacto 
> standard for Windows machines already.
> 
> It feels kinda lonely without any official documentation on this type of 
> operation :-)
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Dmitry Bachilo.
> 
> 

Hi Dmitry,

Yesterday I found some time to try this. It was easy to install WSL on 
the machine. I chose Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as I am working with that version 
everyday and it runs on all the other machines here. As it shows a 
terminal window and takes the usual Linux commands, it seems to be running.

Next step is getting Gambas. I plan to install Gambas via the way it is 
proposed here and on the website. Do you see any glitches?

When I compare the docs for Xming and VcXsrv, my impression is that 
VcXsrv is much more up-to-date and offers some solutions for problems 
which still arise with Xming (Clipboard etc.). Do you agree that it's 
wiser to use VcXsrv from scratch?

I wonder which graphical system is used. Ubuntu normally comes with 
either Qt or GTK+ as its main base, but they are both there. But here we 
have a terminal-only distro, so how will this run?

Last step will be installing my Gambas applications. Where do I put the 
Gambas files to be run? (and how...)

Thank you for your help!

Regards
Rolf