[Gambas-user] Gambas on Haiku?

Brian G brian at westwoodsvcs.com
Sat Feb 19 05:37:04 CET 2022


I think Hiaiku uses QT6.   If that is really a thing on Linux yet.  
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Brian G Friday, 18 February 2022, 05:57AM -08:00 from Admin  admin at allunix.ru :

>Haiku would finally become an OS, if Gambas would be ported to it. But 
>it hardly will ever happen. I'm not an authority here, but I can imagine 
>at least two blocking things to it:
>1. Gambas is desparetly Linux-specific (don't wanna use the word 
>"dependant" here, but might as well) so that it does not even normally 
>compile on very close unix systems such as BSD (now it totally does, but 
>damn I had to wait too many years for it so I still think so)
>2. It's not impossible to port it to Haiku, but it would take so much 
>effort to do so, that it would basically be totally different 
>programming software wich just happens to have the same syntax in the 
>end. Which means the support for it would just be saparate work for 
>Benoit, doubling what he already does with Gambas, and I doubt he wants 
>or even can afford that.
>
>Dmitry.
>
>18.02.2022 0:01,  roberto.premoli at tiscali.it пишет:
> Hello All.
> Maybe someone of you know haiku (haiku-os.org).
> I use it as "spare OS" on a secondary PC of mine and also in virtual 
> machine. Haiku is light, clean, and stable enough for "everyday tasks"
> There are more than 3000 packages avaialable, some "heavy" software 
> (i.e. libreoffice 7, GTK3, inkskapes, falkon, ecc) is already available:
> other like GIMP and WINE are near to ether into their repositories 
> after the due time of test by developers.
> Long story short: I am writing here because it will be nice to see 
> "our" gambas present on that OS because I think it is feasable
> to became another "big one" to see into haiku's repository. There is a 
> tool,  https://github.com/haikuports , that allow to "cook" source
> code to make it installable on haiku. I hane not enough competences to 
> look inside, but maybe someone else in this Mailing List, has.
> Best Regards.
> Roberto
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