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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Awesome Paul...

I'll post something in my Vista thread about all these solutions.
I'll also try to include these fixes and test it on Vista for the next release...

Clock is cool, it's a windowless thing, did you try ColorSpheres too? that one is pretty slick...

http://www.ecere.com/blog/2007/10/21/some-3d-desktop-toys/

Glad you got compiling working. Hopefully you get inspired to try coding in eC

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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Thanks Shockwave
I've always been a big fan of demos, since the FC days =)
I remember seeing Second Reality run on the computers when I bought my first own PC, a 486 DX2 66 MHz

The Balls sample coming with the SDK is inspired from it =)
(http://www.ecere.com/balls.png)

Making demos has always been something I've wanted to do with Ecere, but haven't gotten around to it yet...
I hope to get the chance in 2008 to revamp the Ecere 3D engine to the state of the art =)

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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Yeah I was blaming UAC

But if you say it's disabled... Paul do you have IRC?
Care to join #ecere on irc.freenode.net so I can help you get it rolling?

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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Gotta hate Vista 

There's a thread on the Ecere forums about Vista problems, but no solution yet hehe
I don't run Vista personally...

http://www.ecere.com/Vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=27&page=1#Item_3

But this relates mostly to executing MinGW more than Ecere.
It might be a user permission thing?

EDIT: You can execute the Ecere build process from within the command prompt by running make as such:

make -f Project-Debug.Makefile

This will give you more information than "Fatal Error: child process terminated unexpectedly"

Assuming you first opened the project and attempted to build it or explicitly doing Project / Regenerate Makefile.

The following links are possible solutions:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=67297
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-05/msg00219.html
http://aarongiles.com/?p=199

"In summary:

    Fix #1: Set the environment variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX to point to the root of your mingw install.
    Fix #2: Add %GCC_EXEC_PREFIX%\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2 to your search PATH.

Edit: I got a response from someone who said this didn’t work. Turns out that GCC_EXEC_PREFIX only works if it points to a directory immediately off the root of your hard disk for some reason. So c:\mingw works fine, but c:\tools\mingw won’t. You may have to alter the locations of your mingw directory to make this work."

Let me know if you guys do get it to work, I'll post a solution on our Vista thread.

I'm really wondering why the installer hangs, I never heard anything about that before :S
Might be a permission thing again?

What's vac btw?

Thanks for the Blog post bennyl
And of course thanks deed for this forum post

Cheers

Jerome

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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Hi bennyl!

I'm glad you got a good first impression of Ecere hehe

On the first page (www.ecere.com) you can read the following:


Licensing Information: The Ecere SDK is completely free, and applications built with it can be distributed both commercially and non commercially, along with the supporting Ecere runtime library.

Please tell me if you saw that or not and if I need to make it more obvious
I thought the red color was enough, but hey I don't pretend to be a web designer

If your question is if there is a longer license model, the answer is no right now, and the source code is not currently widely open.
I am however considering a BSD license for the whole project, and waiting mostly to achieve a few more milestones / clean up the code a bit before we get there. The code is of course available for people interested to contribute to the project.

Concerning the roadmap, let me just say the project is very much active. We're currently designing templates in eC, many improvements to the IDE are also under way. I'm also writing a programmer's guide (www.ecere.com/tao.pdf). A database integration system is also under way, among many other things of course

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General chat / Re: The Welcoming Comittee

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Hey guys
wow a welcoming committee!! how friendly

I just found a post about my technology and dropped by to say hi...

I designed a new object oriented programming language (eC - Ecere C) based on C, as part of my whole cross platform Software Development Kit, and of course that's what I code in

So that's what I like to code, along the tons of related projects I have going on (IDE, cross platform GUI, 3D engine, media player, instant messenger, source code management system, and the list goes on )

(Check out the discussion in the Useful Links for it )

Cheers!

Jerome

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Useful links / Re: eC (eCere) new programming language with 2D and 3D built-in library

« on: February 26, 2008 »

Hey guys, just noticed this discussion and saying hi...

I'm the main developer and I'll be happy to answer any question or discuss anything about Ecere with you guys, either here, on FreeNode #ecere, or on our own forums

Of course I encourage everybody to give it a try and I'm here for free support =)

Regards,

Jerome


P.S. Taj what were you referring to "The runtime engine worries me a little - could be slow. " ?

eC is fully compatible with C, so any C code will run exactly as C code would... and specific eC features are also compiled just like C (using C as an intermediate language for now) and are not managed or running under a virtual machine or any of the like...

I hope this reassure you