Installing the latest version of BASIC4GL Linux

Important - If you have never used make before, make sure you execute this command first (I don't think this will work with liveCD's):
sudo apt-get install cpp gcc build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Now you can use make!

• First off you have to download the latest version of the BASIC4GL LInux compiler.
• The download is a tar file so you have to uncompress it using your preferred program (or at the command line type tar -xvvzf myfile.tar.gz).
• In the command line go to the directory that you just extracted the file to (at the CLI type cd linBasic4gl )
• Finally at the command line type make and the program will compile.
• If you cannot get make to work follow all the above instructions and type ./install.sh instead of make.

Using the BASIC4GL CLI (Command Line Interface)

The best way, is to use your favourite text editor to create the source file and save it to the same directory (or sub directory) as the basic4gl compiler. From the command line/ Terminal you can then execute the basic4gl compiler and pass the file you wish to compile as an arguement.
Example (I want to compile 'file.gb'):

./linB4GL file.gb

Downloading and installing SDL (Assumes you have synaptic package manager)

Firstly ensure you have the 'universe' repositories selected, do this by opening synaptic package manager and click settings->repositories and select all the 'universe' checkboxes.
The next thing I did was in synaptics package manager I searched 'SDL', now a WHOLE lot of packages came up, so I selected the following and linux-Basic4gl seemed to compile fine:

• libSDL1.2 (then select all the dependencies).
• libsdl-gfx1.2-4 (select all dependencies)
• libsdl-image1.2 (select all dependencies)
• libsdl-image1.2-dev (select all dependencies)

I then searched for 'GLUT' in synaptic and selected the following:

• freeglut3-dbg (select all dependencies)
• freeglut3-dev (select all dependencies)

(you may not need all of these packages to compile)