Export an old Gambas app to a new system

[samy-AirLivre1]

Hello, I would like to have some help concerning the port of a Gambas application installed on a dated Linux distribution to an up to date one.
The system is a Mageia 5, and impossible to update.
I tried exporting the application as an installation package for Fedora 38 and OpenSuse Tumbleweed/Leap. The installation went well, but when I launched it, I had some development problems, which I'm a total novice at.
I simply wanted to update the workstations to a more recent version of the system. I thought of doing an AppImage or a Flatpak but it was also complicated with this old version of Mageia (2015/2016).

Here's the info on the version of Gambas3 installed on Mageia 5:

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[System]
Gambas=3.6.2
OperatingSystem=Linux
Kernel=4.4.114-server-1.mga5
Architecture=x86
Distribution=Mageia 5
Desktop=KDE4
Theme=Oxygen
Language=fr_FR.UTF-8
Memory=3905M

[Libraries]
Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11400.0
Curl=libcurl.so.4.3.0
DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.8.14
GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.403.0
GTK+3=libgtk-3.so.0.1400.8
GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.26
OpenGL=libGL.so.1.2.0
Poppler=libpoppler.so.46.0.0
Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.6
SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4

And here's the error I encounter when installing on a more recent version of Linux (Fedora 38):



It's highly likely that other errors of this type will occur if this one is corrected. No doubt linked to less permissive libraries or syntax changes in Gambas3 version 3.6.2 to 3.18.3. I tried to install the installation packages generated via the 2 versions without success.

Thanks in advance

[BruceSteers]

I would simply transfer the source folder to the machine with newer gambas and load the project into the IDE.
Project/Make source archive


Then test and remake the executable from the more recent IDE.
that should help you to find any syntax errors.
Also making an installation package may work better with the more recent gambas.

[vuott]

I replaced the following Components:
- "gb.qt4" with "gb.gui.qt"
- "gb.sdl.sound" with "gb.sdl2.sound"
- "gb.report" with "gb.report2"

When starting the project, I got no errors. (My distro: Linux Mint)
However, I didn't try everything else.

[BruceSteers]

Aah yes that will do it.

Newer systems use qt5 and do not have qt4

Using gb.gui.qt is much better than explicitly using a Qt version, it will stop that error ever happening again.

Seems like you've figured it out

[cogier]

Like vuott I managed to get the program to run with minor changes on Linux Mint 21.2 with Gambas 3.18.4



There are a lot of unused functions and variables, this is only one page!



I think the error you are getting is to do with a Database that was not supplied.

Try this:-

NecobaseG3-0.99.41(2023).tar.gz

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