The strangest thing has happened. Once I installed all the development libraries ready to compile gambas 2.19, it started working again with 2.13 installed from the ubuntu repository.
These are what I have just installed: Development packages: libice-dev libsm-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libxfixes-dev x11proto-composite-dev libxext-dev libxcomposite-dev x11proto-render-dev libxrender-dev libxcursor-dev x11proto-damage-dev libxdamage-dev libexpat1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libxinerama-dev x11proto-randr-dev libxrandr-dev libxt-dev x11proto-record-dev libxtst-dev firebird2.1-dev libart-2.0-dev libasound2-dev libattr1-dev libacl1-dev libaspell-dev libbz2-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev libtasn1-3-dev libgnutls-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libcups2-dev libidn11-dev libidn11-dev libjasper-dev libilmbase-dev libopenexr-dev libpcre3-dev liblua50-dev liblualib50-dev libxmu-dev libjpeg62-dev liblcms1-dev libmng-dev libpng12-dev libaudio-dev mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev libsasl2-dev libtiff4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libavahi-common-dev libdbus-1-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-qt3-dev kdelibs4-dev libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev libaa1-dev libaa1-dev libglib2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libaudiofile-dev libidl-dev liborbit2-dev libpopt-dev libbonobo2-dev libcaca-dev libsysfs-dev libdirectfb-dev libpixman-1-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libcairo2-dev libomnithread3-dev libomniorb4-dev libcos4-dev libldap2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libesd0-dev libogg-dev libflac-dev libgif-dev libglew1.5-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkglext1-dev libltdl-dev libimlib2-dev libmikmod2-dev libmikmod2-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libqt4-dev libqt4-opengl-dev librsvg2-dev libsage-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libvorbis-dev libsmpeg-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libspeex-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsqlite3-dev libv4l-dev libffi-dev unixodbc-dev These other packages were brought in by apt too: libexpat1 libxmu-headers libglib2.0-0 libxml2 libkrb5support0 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libkdb5-4 libkadm5srv6 firebird2.1-common-doc firebird2.1-common libfbclient2 gettext-kde libcairo2 libavahi-common3 libavahi-client3 libcups2 libgtk2.0-0 libgail18 libgail-common gtk2-engines-pixbuf libasound2 called libpcrecpp0 lua50 libqt3-headers libtiffxx0c2 kdesdk-scripts libdirectfb-extra libomnithread3c2 libomniorb4-1 libcos4-1 libglew1.5 libgtkglext1 libimlib2 libodbcinstq1c2 libpoppler5 libpoppler-glib4 libpq5 libqt3-compat-headers libqt4-assistant libqt4-scripttools libqt4-xmlpatterns libqt4-help libqt4-test qt4-qmake libsage2 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libsdl-sound1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libtool orbit2 I assume that one of these must be required for gbs2, but I can't think which one. -- joshua higgins >>>>>>------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user