Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64
Date	2025-07-03 07:33 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<2025Jul3.093334@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> writes:
>I recently discovered bigFORTH and MINOS on Bernd Paysan's web site and
>decided to try it on my amd64 PC running Devuan, a Debian-based Linux
>distribution.
>
>I was able to build and install it. The console REPL "bigforth" appears
>to work, but when I try to run the GUI "xbigforth" it crashes with the
>following message:
>
>     libX11.so.6 Library not found!
>     Level: (ABORT" @LIB @SYMS $101471E6 XOPENDIPLAY $FFE44E02 $565BE3CA $FFE440C8
>
>(The first message is displayed in spite of the fact that package
>libx11-6 is already installed.)
>
>Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

I don't know what's wrong.  I would try to use strace to find out
which file xbigforth is trying to access.

In any case, if the interest is in MINOS, Bernd Paysan is now using
Gforth and MINOS2 <https://fossil.net2o.de/minos2/index> as the basis
for his net2o work:
<https://fossil.net2o.de/net2o/doc/trunk/wiki/net2o.md>

- anton
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  Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-03 07:33 +0000
    Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64 David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2025-07-03 21:37 +0900
      Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-07-03 14:56 +0000
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