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reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

As sir Barry Kauler says:

http://www.puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00469

I compiled the source package into a pet.

First attachment was compiled using Puppy Linux 4.00
Second attachment was compiled using Puppy Linux 4.10

Lobster · Posted: Sun 02 Nov 2008, 04:34 Post subject:

reckrhodes you are a star Smile

How exciting.
The programmer of Wirbel is as smart as they get.

The documentation (3 tutorials) is already sounding like gibberish.
However that is because smart people don't slow down for the rest of us.

A new language.
Right at its inception - woof woof

did not seem to work for me

reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

thank you sir Lobster. Very Happy

I was able to duplicate the error you posted.

Its my fault. The first pet i did attached was compiled using the puppy linux 4.1 of MU.

I edited my first post. It has two wirbel pets, for-4.1 and for-4.0.

I hope these will help.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2008, 01:02 Post subject:

Thank you reckrhodes Sir,

I removed the old version using the package manager
and got the following:

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 661 Location: Staffordshire

I got the same result as Lobster. Did a manual install of the files in the packages directory, but then got this again:

Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

Running pup 4.1 full harddrive install.
I simply followed the instructions on the wirbel site!
You will need your devx file to compile it.
Downloaded the wirbel tar.gz file and did a tar xzf wirbel.0.1.8.tar.gz. Then did a make then a make install and it works fine from the command line.
The baustones are in usr/local/lib/wirbel.

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 888

Cur Dog · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 60

Lobster, I to had the same error as you but I renamed the folder "wirbel-0.1.8-i386" in /root/.packages/ to "wirbel-0.1.8-i386-for-4.1" (without the " " ) and then installed the .pet.

After creating the hello file I attempted to execute and now I am getting this error

reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

Again its my fault. I compiled the source into pet even if it has a "wrapper error" when i untarred the source.

I recompiled the new downloaded source into pet this time. Tested the simple "hello.w" by using the command:

wic hello.w then ./hello it displays hello world.

hopefully this will work now.

this my hello.w simple program

print("hello world.")

note:
1. devx_400.sfs should be loaded first
2. please press enter after the close parenthesis so that the program above will work

Please use this pet I attached not the one above.

Cur Dog · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 60

Thanks, reckrhodes....

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 661 Location: Staffordshire

I compiled from source too, and got success - apart from the forgot-to-hit-the-enter-key-so-smack-me-with-a-wet-fish error reported above. Embarassed

brad_chuck · Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2008, 22:32 Post subject:

test_w.w

Lobster · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 06:42 Post subject:

Thanks guys - got it working now Smile

MathiasKettner · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Hello to you all,

first I want to thank you for your interest in Wirbel and to apologize for the
unconveniances Wirbel still has. Of couse the lack of documentation and
many other things is a great drawback. Also I've to apologize for my often
weird an incorrect English, I try my best Wink

Now to your topics:

Code size: per default the output files are not stripped. If you strip them
with 'strip hello', the code size of the hello wolrd program for example
will go down from 69206 to 22648. In the current version 0.1.10 this
is done automatically if you call wic with the option -O (which also does
optimization).

Improvement: It will probably possible to further reduce the size of the
hello world program. But it will never be as small as a hand crafted C
program. It has - for example - to carry code for dynamic string handling,
even if you only print "hello world.". String handling is *very* inconveniant
in C. Every higher level language has some sort of dynamic strings at
the price of bigger code - may it be in some library or included in the executable
itself. If the size of the executable matters a lot in your environment, one
might think of putting as much as possible into a dynamic library that can be used
by all Wirbel programs. Currently Wirbel uses the static-library approach, because
that has the advantage that Wirbel executables run independent of *any*
component of Wirbel.

Greetings,

Mathias

Lobster · Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 07:45 Post subject:

Hi Mathias

Welcome to the kennels (Puppy Community)
Glad you accepted my invitation - good to have you here Smile

- just want to add something for Cur Dog
Your error messages (I got them in geany too) are caused by Linefeeds

- my solution from terminal type leafpad (another editor)
and paste text and save without linefeeds use CR (carriage return) instead - you can probably do this in Geany too . . .