Hello everybody!

Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu? I have nothing but unsuccessful install attempts even with ChatGPT's help. If anyone has any ideas or a link to some help please let me know.

Richard


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Hello Richard!

09 Jul 25 18:49, you wrote to all:

Are you using a package or compiling it from source? Have you got any error logs?

Hello everybody!

Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu? I have nothing but unsuccessful install attempts even with ChatGPT's help. If anyone has any ideas or a link to some help please let me know.

Richard

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JAS


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Hi Richard.

09 Jul 25 18:49, you wrote to All:

Has anyone had any success installing GoldED into Linux/ubuntu?

Yes.

Read back this echo, there was just few days ago a good example how to do it.

'Tommi

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Re: Install GoldED on Linux
By: JAS to Richard Vonzel on Wed Jul 09 2025 10:40 pm

Are you using a package or compiling it from source? Have you got any error logs?

I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps working on it but no luck.

RickV
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Hello Rick!

10 Jul 25 04:50, you wrote to JAS:

I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps working on it
but no luck.

Did you follow these instructions from the docs/building.txt file?


Now go to golded3 and copy mygolded.__h to mygolded.h and adjust it for yourself (put your name, FTN address and e-mail).

Exec 'make'. You may specify following parameters in the make call:

"BUILD=minimal" Compile Golded+ with support only most popular formats of
message bases (OPUS, Jam, Squish).

"USE_NCURSES=0" if you dislike curses library (Linux version requires to
use curses)

"WIDE_NCURSES=1" if it is needed to use wide characters with curses library

"BUGGY_NCURSES=1" if Golded+ requires additional keypresses to pass areascan

"KOI8=1" Better koi-8 support for linux. Do not set this for
international builds since latin-1 support will be broken.

"ICONV=1" Use iconv library for recoding text. Experimental! Do not
set this if you don't sure!

"PLATFORM=xxx" Overwrite platform auto detection. Here "xxx" may be:
"cyg" - for MinGW or Cygwin (MinGW build),
"lnx" - for GNU/Linux or any BSD,
"emx" - for OS/2 EMX
"sun" - for SunOS (Solaris)
"osx" - for OS X
"djg" - for DJGPP (DOS with DPMI)
"be" - for BeOS




Stephen


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Hello Stephen!

22 Dec 70 18:43, you wrote to Rick V:

Hello Rick!

10 Jul 25 04:50, you wrote to JAS:

I've tried a package and from the source. I don't have any logs
but it keeps messing up with the mygolded.h file. ChatGPT keeps
working on it but no luck.

Did you follow these instructions from the docs/building.txt file?

Now go to golded3 and copy mygolded.__h to mygolded.h and adjust it
for yourself (put your name, FTN address and e-mail).

Exec 'make'. You may specify following parameters in the make call:

"BUILD=minimal" Compile Golded+ with support only most popular
formats of
message bases (OPUS, Jam, Squish).

"USE_NCURSES=0" if you dislike curses library (Linux version
requires to
use curses)

"WIDE_NCURSES=1" if it is needed to use wide characters with curses library

"BUGGY_NCURSES=1" if Golded+ requires additional keypresses to pass areascan

"KOI8=1" Better koi-8 support for linux. Do not set this for
international builds since latin-1 support will be broken.

"ICONV=1" Use iconv library for recoding text. Experimental!
Do not
set this if you don't sure!

"PLATFORM=xxx" Overwrite platform auto detection. Here "xxx" may
be:
"cyg" - for MinGW or Cygwin (MinGW build),
"lnx" - for GNU/Linux or any BSD,
"emx" - for OS/2 EMX
"sun" - for SunOS (Solaris)
"osx" - for OS X
"djg" - for DJGPP (DOS with DPMI)
"be" - for BeOS

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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