It wants to open a new window because thats what freeglut is for. Are you printing "Hello, World" to stdout or an opengl texture?
Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Jul 13, 2021, 11:44 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > Just for fun, I tried to get the gb64 compiler to run. But it's not > outputting "Hello, world!" > Here's what I am doing on Ubuntu 20.04: > > apt-get update > apt-get install -y wget less tree g++ libgl-dev libglu1-mesa > libglu1-mesa-dev vim > cd /tmp/ > wget > https://github.com/QB64Team/qb64/releases/download/v1.5/qb64_1.5_lnx.tar.gz > tar -xzvf qb64_1.5_lnx.tar.gz > cd qb64/ > cat <<'eof' > hw.bas > 10 PRINT "Hello, world!" > eof > ./qb64 -x hw.bas > ./hw > > The output I get looks like this: > > QB64 Compiler V1.5 > > Beginning C++ output from QB64 code... > [..................................................] 100% > > Compiling C++ code into executable... > Output: hw > freeglut (./hw): > > It seems intent on opening a new window. Oh, well. Just thought I'd post > my results. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:40 AM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 08:01:19PM -0700, Nat Taylor wrote: >> > https://www.qb64.org/portal/ >> >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:51 PM Nat Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > ... Or a C64 emulator (here >> > is an online one: https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/ ) >> >> Those may be very useful - I have a bunch of old Commodore >> PET cassettes and an old dual cassette-to-GPIB peripheral. >> Also a modded Commodore PET serial number 8, which isn't >> working right now, but I could fix if I had the time. >> >> I also have a stack of Commodore PET engineering blueprints >> (real blue-on-white D size Diazo copies with red confidential >> notices stamped on them) for that ancient personal computer. >> >> Long story omitted. >> >> Microsoft BASIC, used on the 6502-based Commodore PET and >> C64, used the same BASIC bytecodes as other computers using >> Microsoft BASIC (like BASIC for CPM 8080). A few machine- >> dependent differences for peripheral IO. The binaries >> for the different CPUs were different, of course. >> >> Apple BASIC is a different lineage, written by Steve >> Wosniak, and used a different set of binary bytecodes. >> >> The Tandy TRS-80 was yet another lineage. >> >> Back in the mists of time, one of my side-business projects >> was "Little Big Disk", an 8 inch Shugart floppy drive (CPM >> compatible) with a Commodore-PET compatible GPIB connector. >> It performed the slight translation needed to interchange >> M$ 8080 CPM BASIC with M$ 6502 Commodore PET BASIC. >> >> How did I learn how to do this? That is another long >> story, which I hesitate to write because Bill Gates >> may still be as insanely pissed off as he was in 1977. >> >> Keith >> >> P.S. It is amusing that in the late 70s, "64" was Kbytes >> of RAM (16 bit address space), rather than a binary word >> length. Now with 64 bit words, a 64 bit address space is >> theoretically possible, but there aren't any 20 exaword >> machine memories yet. >> >> -- >> Keith Lofstrom [email protected] >>
