... and runs correctly under Windows 10 x64, and Lubuntu 20.04 x64 Lubuntu libraries: libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libncurses5 Also updated libtinfo5 My Windows FreeBASIC version of firework.bas compiles and runs without issue under FBC Version 1.09.0. Under Lubuntu (Using Geany fbc -w all ...

Updated: 1) Fixed the problem of parsing HHC HTML files 2) I tried to get rid of the libtinfo5 dependency by linking the program with this one statically. A trial version of the binaries has been uploaded. I hope there will be no problems. This is necessary so that ...

... Linux (appears on older machines) 3) on Linux, the editor is built with static libtinfo, and this allows you to work without the need to install libtinfo5 (in theory, it should work on any distribution, without the need to install dependencies) from 09.05.2023 4) fixed bug with text output on ...

... for all FB users who encounter this problem is to install the appropriate package from their distro's repository. On Ubuntu and Debian it is "libtinfo5" and "libncurses5" and on Fedora, RedHat, or CentOS it is "ncurses-compat-libs". So the instructions users should ...

I won't be able to list the distributions that don't contain libtinfo5 now, because I did the tests 1-2 years ago, but at least the guys listed some of them here: https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31416 Yes, I saw your answer in this thread ...

Very cool!
Also works on Ubuntu under WSL. Note: I did have to install missing libtinfo5

Thanks for sharing!

Was it the old libtinfo.so problem? If so, I believe "sudo apt install libtinfo5" is all that's required to install that dependency. With libtinfo5, the package you download from this web site will run just fine Mint 19. A tip regarding gcc errors is ...

Did the libtinfo5 package not work for you? EDIT: I see you're trying to target 18.04. Yes you must use an older distro chroot if you need to have compatibility. I guess this is one of the things that snap and flatpack try to address for distributing software.

... compiler packages. sudo apt install gcc libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libtinfo5 libgpm-dev sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev sudo apt install git sudo apt-get install wget rm -r VisualFBEditor git clone https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/VisualFBEditor ...

... compiler packages. sudo apt install gcc libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libtinfo5 libgpm-dev sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev sudo apt install git sudo apt-get install wget rm -r VisualFBEditor git clone https://github.com/XusinboyBekchanov/VisualFBEditor ...

The canonical (no pun intended) solution for Ubuntu is to install the missing library. The distro packages you are looking for are libncurses5 and libtinfo5 (and maybe also you might need libncurses5-devel). This can be installed along side the version 6 that Ubuntu installs by default. You can ...

... Linux distribution): Debian/Ubuntu: gcc libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libtinfo5 libgpm-dev Is there a solution or shall I give up? Chris D See if that path is missing from /etc/ld.so.conf file (or the others referred by ...

... Linux distribution): Debian/Ubuntu: gcc libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libtinfo5 libgpm-dev Is there a solution or shall I give up? Chris D

... and sometimes just inc. The official compiler bundle does run under Ubuntu. The tinfo thing has been discussed many times. Install the package libtinfo5. sudo apt install libtinfo5 I have no idea why this is undocumented. It's really caused real trouble for me. Exactly it is ..include/freebasic. ...

... the need package( sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev libtinfo5 libgpm-dev ) (3)Install IUP3.30( iup-3.30_Linux54_64_lib.tar.gz )( sudo ./install ), the files will install at /usr/lib64, move them to /usr/lib ...