Linux native support

JFonS

I think Gideros is great but I only use GNU/Linux and it's quite frustrating to use Gideros on it as some features of the IDE don't work (in my case I can't even type any text) and the CLI is a pain to use because wine makes things really odd.

So I was looking at the source code and I saw it uses Qt, is there anything that prevents the code from being ported easily to GNU/Linux? I programmed in C++ before although I never used Qt, my intention is to do the porting myself (only the CLI stuff) but I wanted to know if it's going to take a lot of work and if somebody could give some clue about how to approach it. My guess is only the sockets part will have to be modified but I don't actually know.

Thanks in advance.

SinisterSoft

A Raspberry Pi version of Gideros (inc the full editor) is being made by @john26 , once this works then I don't see why a 'normal' x86 version couldn't be made for Linux (maybe even sooner?)...

ar2rsawseen

@JFonS actually Gideros should be built on Linux out of the box, without changes, we just don't have a linux guy to do that

What you would need is probably take OSX build scripts (including all sub included scripts) and rewrite them all for Linux:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/scripts/install.mac.script.sh

gorkem

@jfons a year ago I was able to compile Gideros on an Ubuntu box. I had to change a few library paths and a few minor script lines. Spent a few hours with Atilim for that. I believe anyone with some sysadm knowledge about Linux should do it (and I encourage that!) :-)

JFonS

Thanks for your responses, I'll give it a try when I finish all my exams.

john26

Did anyone make progress on this? I'm currently compiling Gideros on Ubuntu as a step towards Raspberry Pi. I guess I need to add a "Linux" tag to the conditional parts of the .PRO files and then run qmake and make... And also recompile the dependencies (libpng etc) or install these separately using apt-get.

ianchia

Although I develop 99% with OSX - I have the current build installed on an ancient white MacBook running Precise Pangolin and Playonlinux as the Wine layer (WinXp compatibility version I think) - the past few builds installed perfectly and I occasionally use it to dev for Gideros when I'm out and about. I don't use the IDE though except to run the project on a remote device (because of my custom iOS plugins). I use a different text editor and then hit Run in Gideros. It's kinda painful that Gideros doesn't have version control integration (I use Git across multiple platforms.)

Best,

- Ian