Looking for Premium License, but...

[ZekeDragon]

...first I have to ask some questions, seeing as I am on a system that may be incompatible with the GLBasic SDK.

I'm tryhing to be quick here since I have to rush off to work in five minutes, so I apologise if these have already been answered.

First, I have found that GLBasic does build to Linux machines, however, does the IDE run on Linux machines?  I'm using Mandriva 2008.0, just in case that particular version might cause problems.

Second, can I compile GLBasic programs without using the IDE included with GLBasic SDK?  For example using a text editor like Emacs or just KWrite, then using a command line tool to compile similar to other compilers?

Finally, will I be able to get a source code license?  Not for distribution purposes (I do intend on distributing my code), but rather for building GLBasic on other Linux machines it might not be compatible with, or possibly even others?  If not, I'm not complaining.

Thanks for your patience answering these, I know this has a great support community.

- Zeke

[AndyH]

GLBasic runs only on Windows, but can compile to many different platforms (linux included).

There is not a command line version, you have to use the IDE but it is pretty good.

When you buy GLBasic, you get a licence to distribute, sell or what ever, the executables you produce with it royalty free.

[PeeJay]

I believe that GLBasic will run fine under WINE, though, so that should solve any issues on any linux builds you come across

[Moru]

It runs on WINE under Ubuntu at öeast but tere are a few smaller problems with the IDE. Mabe it´s me that dont know enough :-) I havent been able to run the games since you seem to need some runtime libraries for running the programs on linux but the manual says nothing about it.

[Kitty Hello]

You won't get the source though. If you have requests for other machines, tell us. Maybe it's interesting and we offer it in a future version.
Usually, when you help building a cross compiler, the rest is easy to do.

For Linux you need the SDL and SDL_Mixer libraries. If Supertux runs, this should, too.

[Moru]

Supertux is that tuxracing game in a snowy slope? That runs just fine but when I start my games nothing happens and there is nothing in the logfiles either. I'm in Germany visiting the german part of the family so can't check anything right now sadly. I haven't prioriticed this since I didn't realy have time to finish any game yet anyway :-)

[Kitty Hello]

Supertux is that jump&run thingy. Anyway, start the game from a console (terminal) and post the output here.