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
> 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
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
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
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
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
