[Gambas-user] Gambas on Haiku?

[Bruce Steers]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 20:48, T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2/20/22 15:28, Bruce Steers wrote:
> >     Yes, Qt6 is a "thing" (https://www.qt.io/product/qt6 <
> https://www.qt.io/product/qt6>). But, openSUSE (neither Leap nor
> >     Tumbleweed) does not use it yet.
> >
> >
> > No you can get it on tumbleweed
> > https://wiki.qt.io/Linux_distributions_that_build_Qt_6 <
> https://wiki.qt.io/Linux_distributions_that_build_Qt_6>
>
> You are correct. (https://software.opensuse.org/package/libQt6Core6) The
> info at distrowatch.org is incorrect.
>
> Getting back to the original topic, I see that there are build patches for
> Gambas at the HaikuPorts project
> (https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports) in the dev-lang directory.
> Unfortunately, they're six years old.
>


Well i tried for a number of hours.

Conclusion...
Haiku needs to sort it's packages out.

My finding was that i was in an incompatibility trap.

Things like installing gtk3 uninstalled cairo and installed xcairo and
uninstalled libxcb

It seemed i could not install all the correct dependencies due to other
dependencies being removed when i tried.

i got as far as running ./reconf-all and then ./configure had all manner of
missing deps.

But suffice to say, it WOULD work if it didn't have those problems.

So Roberto it looks like these 2 options...
Haiku needs to update it's packages for compatibility so various things can
be installed alongside each other.
I'd suggest emailing the Haiku team with a list of required dependencies
for gambas.

You should know this Roberto. gambas itself is not packaged (ported) by
Benoit or anyone to ANY os except ubuntu i guess with the PPA files.
The individual os makers like debian/fedora/etc all package gambas
themselves and add it to their repositories.
So either the Haiku team need to package gambas and add it to their
repository or the only other way is for them to add all the dependencies
needed for compilation.
You should get on the Haiku forums and plead for it :)


Anyone feel free to correct me if i'm wrong :)

BruceS
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