[Gambas-user] Gambas on Windows

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Martin,

this is what I achieved up to now:

- Installed WSL
As I was asked to do it under Admin rights, I did so. Maybe it was no 
good idea, as up to now I can run the whole thing as Admin only. The 
easy point-and-click method Dmitry told us does not run yet / runs only 
under this limitation.

- In the WSL Linux, I installed Gambas. That installed a whole mass of 
libraries with it, including GTK+ and Qt.

- As Dmitry did, I created a link on the Windows Desktop to start the 
Gambas IDE directly. (But I have to right-click on it and say "Start as 
Admin", giving Admin's password.)

- The Gambas IDE runs perfectly, hasn't crashed yet.

- Now came the tricky part: Copying a project from my main working 
computer (Linux) to this one. Of course, one can easily copy it into 
Users\Username... and this was what I did first. It worked well, because 
C:\is mounted under /mnt/c automagically. But in Linux, everything is in 
/home/user/..., and I wanted my project to be there. So I had to copy it 
from there, and that was possible in a second step from within WSL.

- A few times, Defender interfered and I had to tell him to leave me 
alone with my files.

- The IDE loads the program, and the program runs flawlessly.

- I still couldn't find a way to get access to our server's directory 
for the data needed by this program. On Windows, there is a network 
drive "Y:" which pretends to be a directory but is in fact a faked 
network address to the Samba on the server. Creating a link within 
Windows from this drive into a user directory doesn't help in Linux, as 
for Linux this is just a file containing some data it cannot make use of.

- So I tried to setup sshfs, but I failed somewhere on the way... I 
setup Fuse, made a fuse group, put the main user into this group... I 
modprobed fuse... Don't really know if it was possible and I just missed 
something or if it wouldn't be possible at all.

- In the end I simply copied some of the data from the server into the 
Gambas project directory and pointed the program to these data.

- Then in the IDE I made a Gambas binary and in Windows I made a link 
from the desktop pointing to it to try. It runs like a charme from 
there, so I really hope I can solve the other problems.

Regards
Rolf


Am 23.01.20 um 13:12 schrieb Martin Cristia:
> Will swich to VcXsrv and give it a second try.
> 
> 
>  >     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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