BASICtools now working on Linux Mint. Give it a try BASICtools for Linux and Mac
It's been spring cleaning in the winter. I retired for 2 old laptops (by removing hard disks, recycled batteries). A remaining working old laptop converted to WinXP so I could keep access to floppies and WinXP. Sold another on eBay as it was too small for my fat fingers. And my old HP Netbook 110, which was my road warrior machine for years, was converted to Linux Mint.
With that conversion, there was a stable platform for Linux in my lab. One of the issues has always been finding a good pre-processor, which for a while could be built with make on many linuxes. That seems to have broken. One alternative was filepp, which is written in Perl so theoretically portable. But there is also gpp which is supported by apt-get install on many flavors of Linux. With that gpp, BASICtools can be feasably supported there. GPP was originally written by Denis Auroux. Since version 2.12 it has been maintained by Tristan Miller.
To install gpp--
- sudo apt-get install gpp
- cd gpp/src
- sudo ./configure & make & make install
More. information on Linux ports in the next few blog pages.
I'm still no Linux guy, so the way it is done, is with a simple Coridium directory that holds all files, temporary, libraries, and examples. Looking for feedback of all types.
