Subj : Install GoldED on Linux
To : Stephen Walsh
From : RickV
Date : Thu Jul 10 2025 10:09 am
Hello Stephen!
22 Dec 70 18:43, you wrote to Rick V:
SW> Hello Rick!
SW> 10 Jul 25 04:50, you wrote to JAS:
RV>> I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs
RV>> but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps
RV>> working on it but no luck.
SW> Did you follow these instructions from the docs/building.txt file?
SW> Now go to golded3 and copy mygolded.__h to mygolded.h and adjust it
SW> for yourself (put your name, FTN address and e-mail).
SW> Exec 'make'. You may specify following parameters in the make call:
SW> "BUILD=minimal" Compile Golded+ with support only most popular
SW> formats of
SW> message bases (OPUS, Jam, Squish).
SW> "USE_NCURSES=0" if you dislike curses library (Linux version
SW> requires to
SW> use curses)
SW> "WIDE_NCURSES=1" if it is needed to use wide characters with curses
SW> library
SW> "BUGGY_NCURSES=1" if Golded+ requires additional keypresses to pass
SW> areascan
SW> "KOI8=1" Better koi-8 support for linux. Do not set this for
SW> international builds since latin-1 support will be
SW> broken.
SW> "ICONV=1" Use iconv library for recoding text. Experimental!
SW> Do not
SW> set this if you don't sure!
SW> "PLATFORM=xxx" Overwrite platform auto detection. Here "xxx" may
SW> be:
SW> "cyg" - for MinGW or Cygwin (MinGW build),
SW> "lnx" - for GNU/Linux or any BSD,
SW> "emx" - for OS/2 EMX
SW> "sun" - for SunOS (Solaris)
SW> "osx" - for OS X
SW> "djg" - for DJGPP (DOS with DPMI)
SW> "be" - for BeOS
SW> 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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