Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I'll add that it did not take that much to get it up and running on Linux. I had an Ubuntu 16.04 ISO already so I built a VM and updated everything. I used the commands on the build-linux.md file to get all of the dev software installed. The only package missing was java... (sudo apt-get install d

Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 11 Sep 2017, at 12:54 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > wrote: > > I did that sort of thing about 3-4 years ago in a rather feeble attempt to > build a Livecode > version to run on Linux PPC . . . > > Most open source efforts supply a folder with the build files inside it rather

Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Someone more knowledgeable would need to comment as to why, but I can verify that it won't build from downloaded zips of the repository. When attempting to `make config-mac` it will complain that it isn't a git repository. Having said all that, it wasn't that bad to get the environment set up on

Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 09/10/2017 07:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I did that sort of thing about 3-4 years ago in a rather feeble attempt to build a Livecode version to run on Linux PPC . . . Most open source efforts supply a folder with the build files inside it rather than forcing people d

Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I did that sort of thing about 3-4 years ago in a rather feeble attempt to build a Livecode version to run on Linux PPC . . . Most open source efforts supply a folder with the build files inside it rather than forcing people down the slightly recherché route of git-hub. Richmond. On 9/10/17

Re: Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
A little more involved. I've only done it on Mac, but start here: See https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/README.md You need to clone the git repository to your machine and have the build tools setup for your platform. I'm not sure about the "install" part though... I've just been

Getting saucy

2017-09-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Sometimes I download a folder containing the source code for an application and cd into it from the Terminal and do a ./compile make make install series of actions and the code is compiled and installed in my operating system. How does one download such a folder of an Open Source version of L