• Install GoldED on Linux

    From Richard Vonzel@1:154/110 to All on Wed Jul 9 18:49:42 2025
    Hello everybody!

    Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu? I have nothing but unsuccessful install attempts even with ChatGPT's help. If anyone has any ideas or a link to some help please let me know.

    Richard


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  • From JAS@4:900/733 to Richard Vonzel on Wed Jul 9 22:40:50 2025

    Hello Richard!

    09 Jul 25 18:49, you wrote to all:

    Are you using a package or compiling it from source? Have you got any error logs?

    Hello everybody!

    Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu? I have nothing but unsuccessful install attempts even with ChatGPT's help. If anyone has any ideas or a link to some help please let me know.

    Richard


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    JAS


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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/6 to Richard Vonzel on Thu Jul 10 07:02:22 2025
    Hi Richard.

    09 Jul 25 18:49, you wrote to All:

    Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu?

    Yes.

    Read back this echo, there was just few days ago a good example how to do it.

    'Tommi

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  • From Rick V@1:154/110 to JAS on Thu Jul 10 04:50:56 2025
    Re: Install GoldED on Linux
    By: JAS to Richard Vonzel on Wed Jul 09 2025 10:40 pm

    Are you using a package or compiling it from source? Have you got any error logs?

    I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps working on it but no luck.

    RickV
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  • From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to Rick V on Thu Jul 10 22:00:44 2025

    Hello Rick!

    10 Jul 25 04:50, you wrote to JAS:


    I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps working on it
    but no luck.


    Did you follow these instructions from the docs/building.txt file?


    Now go to golded3 and copy mygolded.__h to mygolded.h and adjust it for yourself (put your name, FTN address and e-mail).

    Exec 'make'. You may specify following parameters in the make call:

    "BUILD=minimal" Compile Golded+ with support only most popular formats of
    message bases (OPUS, Jam, Squish).

    "USE_NCURSES=0" if you dislike curses library (Linux version requires to
    use curses)

    "WIDE_NCURSES=1" if it is needed to use wide characters with curses library

    "BUGGY_NCURSES=1" if Golded+ requires additional keypresses to pass areascan

    "KOI8=1" Better koi-8 support for linux. Do not set this for
    international builds since latin-1 support will be broken.

    "ICONV=1" Use iconv library for recoding text. Experimental! Do not
    set this if you don't sure!

    "PLATFORM=xxx" Overwrite platform auto detection. Here "xxx" may be:
    "cyg" - for MinGW or Cygwin (MinGW build),
    "lnx" - for GNU/Linux or any BSD,
    "emx" - for OS/2 EMX
    "sun" - for SunOS (Solaris)
    "osx" - for OS X
    "djg" - for DJGPP (DOS with DPMI)
    "be" - for BeOS




    Stephen


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  • From RickV@1:154/110 to Stephen Walsh on Thu Jul 10 10:09:18 2025
    Hello Stephen!

    22 Dec 70 18:43, you wrote to Rick V:

    Hello Rick!

    10 Jul 25 04:50, you wrote to JAS:


    I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs
    but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps
    working on it but no luck.


    Did you follow these instructions from the docs/building.txt file?


    Now go to golded3 and copy mygolded.__h to mygolded.h and adjust it
    for yourself (put your name, FTN address and e-mail).

    Exec 'make'. You may specify following parameters in the make call:

    "BUILD=minimal" Compile Golded+ with support only most popular
    formats of
    message bases (OPUS, Jam, Squish).

    "USE_NCURSES=0" if you dislike curses library (Linux version
    requires to
    use curses)

    "WIDE_NCURSES=1" if it is needed to use wide characters with curses library

    "BUGGY_NCURSES=1" if Golded+ requires additional keypresses to pass areascan

    "KOI8=1" Better koi-8 support for linux. Do not set this for
    international builds since latin-1 support will be broken.

    "ICONV=1" Use iconv library for recoding text. Experimental!
    Do not
    set this if you don't sure!

    "PLATFORM=xxx" Overwrite platform auto detection. Here "xxx" may
    be:
    "cyg" - for MinGW or Cygwin (MinGW build),
    "lnx" - for GNU/Linux or any BSD,
    "emx" - for OS/2 EMX
    "sun" - for SunOS (Solaris)
    "osx" - for OS X
    "djg" - for DJGPP (DOS with DPMI)
    "be" - for BeOS

    Stephen

    I ended up following Warpslide's setup and that worked for me, but thanks for the help. I'll keep you mail just in case.

    Thanks,
    RickV


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