Is Bmax portable on a USB drive?
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| Can I throw the BlitzMax folder onto a Flash drive and then compile stuff on a separate computer? Or is there environmental variables and stuff set at installation that would make it not work? Thanks |
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| yes, but only if you don't need build any thing that needs MinGW otherwise it will work just fine. make shure you don't need to build any modules before doing that. |
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| greetings :) you can use MinGW with BMAX on a USB. to do this, MinGW needs to be installed on the USB stick and BMAX needs to be launched from a BAT file. the BAT file sets up temp paths to the MinGW directory for the run of the BAT. my install has MinGW at the same directory level as my BMAX install. the BAT is in the BMAX root folder and looks like this: @setlocal @set path=%path%;%CD%\bin;%CD%\..\MingW\bin; @set MINGW=%CD%\..\MingW maxide.exe @endlocal |
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| On the Mac it may not work. I cannot get blitz to run when I launch it over the network from my other computer, on a 64-bit Snow Leopard laptop. Possibly due to xcode not being installed. |
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| To be honest, I just copied the BlitzMax folder from Program Files on my USB stick and run in right from there on my school computers. Maybe that's because I go to a tech college and we have MinGW on all machines. |
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