[Gambas-user] Gambas on Windows

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 22.01.20 um 13:33 schrieb Martin Cristia:
> Hi Dmitry,
> I also tried is on a laptop with W10 installed. It was fairly easy to 
> have an Ubuntu 19 running and the last Gambas via ppa. XMing seems out 
> of date but works. Not a good experience, graphics , fonts are too small 
> mostly. But the important part is that most of my program don’t work due 
> to file’s path conflicts, JIT, components, ets.  I made a new from wih 
> some controls in it and  that worked ffine, but with it keep freezing 
> unexpectedly. So the conclusion is that it wont work for a serious 
> project or it may take a huge adaptation for the new environment.
> 
> Have a good day
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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I haven't proceeded as far as you did, Martin, but at least I managed to 
install Gambas and VcXsrv. Everything runs fine, the only thing is that 
I can start WSL and all Xserver application under Admin rights only. If 
you happen to know how to fix this, please let me know. I am not so 
experienced with modern Windows.

When installing Gambas, a whole bunch of libraries is installed with it, 
such as the core GTK and Qt libraries. The Gambas IDE can be started, 
and a simple first project runs. The whole appearence is somewhat... 
well, crude, like an old TclTK or GTK application, but alas, it runs.

There is one thing I could not solve yet, i. e. mounting a drive which 
is a Samba drive on the windows host. I have mounted one Linux server's 
partition as drive Y: on the Windows to have access to student data 
otherwise managed by Linux software on the server itself. For my 
project, I would need access to this drive.

So WSL would have to mount Y:. Any idea how to achieve this?

Regards
Rolf