[Oberon] Standalone BlackBox programs was: GUI programming in Oberon.

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Lars,

>>> There is no way to ship a standalone exe GUI program,

Wrong. Please check before you set such a statement in the wild.

>How did you ship an exe standalone? modify the blackbox source code, or
>use a different compiler?

There are several way, the basic one is documented in the "Platform-Specific Issues".

BlackBox.exe itself is created with BlackBox. See "Linking BlackBox Applications" in the 
Document mentioned above.

Moreover you can pack a complete filesystem in the exe, see  
<installed directory>/Dev/Spec/PackedFiles.odc

--
  Bernhard

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lars [mailto:noreply at z505.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 1:36 AM
>To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>Subject: Re: [Oberon] GUI programming in Oberon.
>
>On Sat, February 27, 2016 8:54 pm, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
>> On 2/27/2016 7:07 PM, Lars wrote:
>>
>>> There is no way to ship a standalone exe GUI program,
>>>
>> Not true.  I have written a number of .exe programs developed in
>> BlackBox for
>> paying customers.
>
>Well, you can even sell applications that run inside the blackbox
>environment.
>
>How did you ship an exe standalone? modify the blackbox source code, or
>use a different compiler?