[Gambas-user] Running multiple versions of Gambas and or use of --program-suffix

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 06/06/2020 à 11:28, KKing a écrit :
> @Benoit, don't think I saw a response to this, is it a non starter / 
> just too difficult?
> 
> Is there a root config file that holds the main version at 3 that I 
> could for my own purposes say change to 9 so could create a disguised 
> 3.14 as 9.14 for my testing?
> I tried looking and testing, but I seem to find a lot of references and 
> the make would still generate a mixture of gambas3 and gambas9 
> references and e.g. gbr3 but gbc9.
> 
> K
> 
> ----[ http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/netiquette ]----

I think you can achieve what you want by:

- Compiling from sources by using './configure --prefix=XXX'. For 
example: './configure --prefix=/opt/gambas/3.8'

- Set the GB_PATH environment variable with the path of the specific 
interpreter. For example: 'setenv GB_PATH /opt/gambas/3.8/bin/gbx3'.

If you want to run two versions at the same time, you have to switch the 
'GB_PATH' environment variable according to the version you want to run.

Tell me if it works.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini