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   Anton Ertl to David Meyer   
   Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64   
   03 Jul 25 07:33:34   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   David Meyer  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  as the basis   
   for his net2o work:   
      
      
   - anton   
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