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Basicprogramming(.org) => General questions and discussions => Topic started by: Tomaaz on September 30, 2018, 04:15:02 PM

Title: AppImage
Post by: Tomaaz on September 30, 2018, 04:15:02 PM

Is the AppImage approach the best option for distributing BASICs on Linux? For those who are not familiar with the format - an AppImage file is a single executable file that contains the program itself together with all the dependencies. You simply download the file and run it. No installation, compilation, configuration or chasing dependencies. I would love to see, for example, ScripBasic distributed in this format. What do you think?

Title: Re: AppImage
Post by: Aurel on September 30, 2018, 07:41:15 PM

I would like to see BaCon if this thing work on wifi-slax i have installed

Title: Re: AppImage
Post by: Tomaaz on September 30, 2018, 07:57:14 PM

The whole idea of "this thing" is to work everywhere. Do you mean BaCon together with a compiler, C and GTK libraries etc. in one file? The file would be probably massive, but yes - that would be easy to use.

Title: Re: AppImage
Post by: Aurel on September 30, 2018, 08:04:53 PM

well yes ...and maybe is possible to use tcc ?
or must be gcc..i don't know which compiler BaCon need  ::)

Title: Re: AppImage
Post by: Tomaaz on September 30, 2018, 08:12:57 PM

You can use different compilers with BaCon, it doesn't have to be GCC.