Hello all!

I'm starting my wiki articles (keep an eye on http://wiki.bbs.geek.nz/tutorials:crystal_bbs:start) and would appreciate feedback. I'll post again when I'm done with the intro, but for now I need someone to try out my BBS prototype's binaries so I can be sure Crystal binaries work on mac/Linux without extra libraries. Please download it here:

https://www.NoFile.io/f/m4vLVGB0U79 (password is "zoinks")

And let me know if it runs on your system or not. Only 64bit mac/Linux is supported. I know running binaries is scary, so you can try running this on a VM if you don't trust me :D If you manage to run it, login to the default localhost port 2023 with a telnet client and login as "user"/"pass" and you should see some scrolling ANSI art.

Knowing if Crystal binaries run on other systems without modifications is helpful for the rest of the tutorial.

Cheers,

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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Scifi Hangout (21:2/114)

RE: Wiki editing
BY: sardaukar(21:2/114)

I'm starting my wiki articles (keep an eye on http://wiki.bbs.geek.nz/tutorials:crystal_bbs:start) and would appreci
ate
feedback. I'll post again when I'm done with the intro, but for now I
need
someone to try out my BBS prototype's binaries so I can be sure Crysta
l
binaries work on mac/Linux without extra libraries. Please download it

On macOS I got:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib/libyaml-0.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/andrew/Downloads/bbs_rel001/./bbs_macos_x64
Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

I tried installing libyaml from macports but it had 0.1.7

Andrew

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Oh, didn't know mac ports were still being updated!

I use Homebrew(https://brew.sh) and having a look at the Crystal package, it seems to depend on libyaml 0.1.7 too, but maybe at a different location :|

The package is here: http://braumeister.org/formula/crystal-lang

I'll check if I can fix this, but Crystal being still in alpha will probably not help :( Kind of a shame, I would assume the binaries would stand on their own anywhere...

Thanks for testing!

--
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Scifi Hangout (21:2/114)

Well, I'll only be able to check this at work, I use Linux at home. I might have installed a newer version of libyaml for Ruby compilation or something.

I'll keep you posted!

--
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Scifi Hangout (21:2/114)