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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