by Erebor » Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:13 pm
I'm not entirely sure where the appropriate place is to post this question/problem, but I'm choosing to do so here, rather than create a new topic.
Anyone is welcome to comment, but I'm specifically addressing this to Robb. I'm a Mac User, and I recently downloaded the Hugo Compiler for OS X, along with all the necessaries to get started programming for Hugo. The Hugo Book seems very straightforward and understandable. I'm well into the first two sections, and I wanted to get started playing around with the compiler. Bear in mind, that I have a basic familiarity with C++, and general computer science concepts, which I learned in college.
The problem that I'm having seems to be that Terminal crashes immediately when I run the compiler. I've tried both double-clicking it, and running it from within Terminal, the usual way. In both cases, I end up with a "process completed" message, and a screen with which I can do nothing. This is Terminal's way of saying that the program has ended... the program which I just opened. All the menus seem to be in the right place, just inactive.
I'm not sure why this is happening. I'm certain that the download from the Hugo site was perfectly suitable for Unix users in general, but there seems to be an assumption on the part of those who make these packages available that all Mac users are command line experts, which is not the case. The command line didn't even exist for us, prior to OSX. While that has been awhile, I've been a Mac user for several years (an embarrassingly long period of time), and I'm feeling like I'm having to learn about my computer all over again... being so unfamiliar with Terminal. One of my CS professors said that the GUI makes us all dependent and stupid. I suppose that's right. I like having a command line interface on my system... I'm excited about the potential for what it can accomplish. I'm just not that familiar with it. Nearly all my experience has been interacting with the system at the macro level, with the GUI. However, I don't believe I'm actually doing anything wrong here. My first impulse was to allocate more RAM for Terminal, to keep it from crashing-- which in this version of OS X, I'm no longer allowed to do.
Can someone give me some idea what's going on here? Once I get over this first hiccup, I think I can get on with my artistic endeavours... but I need something to experiment with, first.
Can we at least establish if the OSX download from the HUGO site definitely works on a system running OSX? I suspect that someone may have just given me some Unix files and hoped for the best.
I'm not entirely sure where the appropriate place is to post this question/problem, but I'm choosing to do so here, rather than create a new topic.
Anyone is welcome to comment, but I'm specifically addressing this to Robb. I'm a Mac User, and I recently downloaded the Hugo Compiler for OS X, along with all the necessaries to get started programming for Hugo. The Hugo Book seems very straightforward and understandable. I'm well into the first two sections, and I wanted to get started playing around with the compiler. Bear in mind, that I have a basic familiarity with C++, and general computer science concepts, which I learned in college.
The problem that I'm having seems to be that Terminal crashes immediately when I run the compiler. I've tried both double-clicking it, and running it from within Terminal, the usual way. In both cases, I end up with a "process completed" message, and a screen with which I can do nothing. This is Terminal's way of saying that the program has ended... the program which I just opened. All the menus seem to be in the right place, just inactive.
I'm not sure why this is happening. I'm certain that the download from the Hugo site was perfectly suitable for Unix users in general, but there seems to be an assumption on the part of those who make these packages available that all Mac users are command line experts, which is not the case. The command line didn't even exist for us, prior to OSX. While that has been awhile, I've been a Mac user for several years (an embarrassingly long period of time), and I'm feeling like I'm having to learn about my computer all over again... being so unfamiliar with Terminal. One of my CS professors said that the GUI makes us all dependent and stupid. I suppose that's right. I like having a command line interface on my system... I'm excited about the potential for what it can accomplish. I'm just not that familiar with it. Nearly all my experience has been interacting with the system at the macro level, with the GUI. However, I don't believe I'm actually doing anything wrong here. My first impulse was to allocate more RAM for Terminal, to keep it from crashing-- which in this version of OS X, I'm no longer allowed to do.
Can someone give me some idea what's going on here? Once I get over this first hiccup, I think I can get on with my artistic endeavours... but I need something to experiment with, first.
Can we at least establish if the OSX download from the HUGO site definitely works on a system running OSX? I suspect that someone may have just given me some Unix files and hoped for the best.