World: r4wp

I've cleaned up the open tickets today and created a wish list page 
in the project's wiki on github.

Freddy reports a number of strange problems with the MSDOS and Darwin 
versions of the test binaries. I'll relay more when I get more info 
from him

Kaj: do you have more info about that? Just to know if releasing 
0.3.0 tonight is safe or if I should wait more?

HI Kaj, I download Your Gtk Bindings and and GLib too, put it in 
red-system directory (it's a write place ?) and I have too problems:

first  error in GLib line 35 %include ../common/common.reds and it's 
runtime/commons.reds. After correction i

-= Red/System Compiler =- 
Compiling RedGTK/examples/hello-GTK-world.reds ...
*** Compilation Error: alias name already defined as: [struct! [
        item [c-string!]
    ]] 
*** in file: %runtime/common.reds 
*** at line: 62 
*** near: [
    str-array!: alias struct! [
        item [c-string!]
    ] 
    typed-value!: alias struct! [
        type [integer!] 
        value [integer!] 
        _padding [integer!]
    ]
]

I am not shure this is all clear :) but if you can help......

You need the Red-common repository, too, installed in a subdirectory 
called common/. Same pattern as GTK and GLib. See the Announce channel 
a few announcements back

You're confusing it with a Red/System file called common. They have 
nothing in common ;-)

Thanks Kaj ! I have My "Hello Red/system GTK+Hello World !"  :) I 
have to reed some docs and wait for Red 1.0 .. does it come whit 
some hight level VID or RedGUI ?

Not yet

Freddy has the following problems on Windows 7 Home Premium:

Alvira thinks there's a Trojan in Red/Hello.exe and Red/Fibonacci.exe 
( TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen )

Access denied on executing all exe's in MSDOS/Red

:(

hello-unicode in MSDOS:

Hello, world!
+º+¦ß+û¤ü+Á, +¦¤î¤â+++Á!
õ¢áÕÑ¢, õ©ûþòî
Dobr+¢ den sv-øte

Not like in linux.....

Indeed

Mac mini Intel Core Duo:

Only RedSystem/empty returns to prompt. Rest hangs (hello, Fibonacci, 
Mandelbrot)

OK, thanks for your time, I have to see my bed... tomorow long day 
of Irish music and maybe long night ;)

Have fun :-)

Antivirus alert: I've scanned Hello.exe with virustotal.com, no virus 
signature detected at all:

https://www.virustotal.com/file/ecde1916047993067be692235fb87352860b4596f5a2d54ba7efbf7482bcbe3a/analysis/1351329447/

Fibonacci.exe does raise some alerts from a few AV:

https://www.virustotal.com/file/6a86ef360727e907b6fc8cd7f9c0607a3ccb11f8f953747167b349dc43d6bf8a/analysis/1351329779/


I will look into these false positives signatures to see if I can 
improve that. Not sure it will be possible if they are caught by 
undocumented heuristics...

hello-unicode in MSDOS: has he switched the DOS console to Consolas 
font?

I get virus alerts all the time from red. I just turn it off. The 
only thing that ever got as many hits as red was rainbowforth which 
was another very minimalistic program. AV programs seem prejudiced 
against small executables :(

I've sent a few info requests to various AV vendors, I hope to get 
some clues about what's triggering their heuristics.

I will release v0.3.0 in a couple of hours, if you want to do some 
tests to track regressions, that would help.

For example, testing Kaj's bindings on non-Windows platforms would 
help.

Consolas font: probably not, I'll ask

Shouldn't FPU initialisation be included automatically when Red/System 
is configured to use the C library? I have at least three bindings 
that need it

What makes you think it is not included?

I've sent an email to Freddy already asking a few more questions 
about his issues.

I've dropped my C library binding from several examples that use 
large libraries on top of GTK. I had my FPU initialisation in the 
C library binding and now the crashes on float exceptions are back

You should add C-specific FPU initialisation to the bindings that 
produces float exceptions. C relies on FPU flags (masked exceptions) 
that are different from what Red/System uses. Doing so will shutdown 
some Red/System runtime error traps (like division by zero), but 
allow C-based libraries that access the FPU to work normally.

Ah, forgot that they conflict

Red alpha release: http://www.red-lang.org/2012/10/red-alpha-release.html

I'm glad this one is out...finally back to coding now! :-)

Congratulations! Looks great, sure gonna play around with this release!

Wonderful.

Great News!

Thanks! I have added a mention about missing Chinese font on some 
of the screenshots, just in case someone thinks it's a bug.

Congratulations on this heavy milestone!

I've moved the SQLite developing branch to trunk. Needs the new Red/System 
release

Is there currently a difference between MSDOS and Windows targets?

Yes, MSDOS uses the 'console sub-system, while Windows target uses 
the 'GUI sub-system.

OK, but what's the concrete difference in generated code?

So far, it doesn't make a big difference in practice.

The difference lies in the PE header, the sub-system required to 
run the app needs to be set to either 'console or 'GUI.

OK, thanks. I'll split the test builds, then