[Gambas-user] Gambas on Windows

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Yes, this is what I had in mind, Luis :)

Or a page in the Gambas wiki.

Regards
Rolf

Am 23.01.20 um 01:11 schrieb Luis Louro:
> It would be nice if after your experience you guys put all this 
> knowledge in a blog post. It could help people who might want to check 
> gambas on Windows. Thanks in advance,
> 
> Luis
> 
> A quarta, 22/01/2020, 14:54, Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de 
> <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>> escreveu:
> 
>     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
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