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Programming from a Surface RT

jprischakjprischak Posts: 2
edited 2014-01-25 15:08 in General Discussion
Hi, i recently purchased a Surface RT and was wondering if anybody knew if there was a way to write, compile and deploy propeller applications from the surface. I did do a search and could not find anything.

Thanks in advance.
Jason

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-25 10:10
    If you are lucky one day someone will bust the interlocks on that thing and manage to install Debian or some other Linux distro on it.
    Then all the current opensource dev tools will be buildable to run on it.

    Until then it's just a door jamb I'm afraid.

    Of course there are efforts under way to bypass all that interlock stuff and make tools available in the web browser. That might take a little time yet.

    Edit:. Seems I am behind the times. Linux or Surface is already possible: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-surface-pro-1539262/

    Edit, edit: Sorry that seems to be the Surface Pro which is an Intel laptop basically. The RT was ARM and locked down.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-01-25 10:36
    @jprischak,

    Welcome to the forum.

    To answer your original question, we are working on a web-application method of programming propeller which should work on any platform. Heater's work converting a spin compiler to javascript is a key aspect of making that work. I was asked to focus on Chromebook where the compiler conversion will be necessary for example.

    One question about Surface .... Is it possible to use Google Chrome on it, or is Internet Explorer the only option?

    @Heater,

    Most people don't want to fundamentally change something right after buying it unless that was their intention before getting it.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-25 10:51
    jprischak,

    Sorry, yes, welcome to the forum. Sorry for being so negative in my reply.

    Hopefully we will soon be able to edit and compile Spin programs in the web browser thus making the actual OS irrelevant. As long as the browser supports all the HTML 5 we need.

    That still leaves the issue of actually getting a compiled program into a Propeller from the browser. We will find way.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-01-25 10:58
    Heater. wrote: »
    That still leaves the issue of actually getting a compiled program into a Propeller from the browser. We will find way.
    Impossible :)
    Work in progress :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-25 11:03
    Jazzed,

    Yep. Today was dedicated to figuring out how to get web workers going so we can run openspin.js as a background process. Almost there!
  • jprischakjprischak Posts: 2
    edited 2014-01-25 15:06
    Thanks, that is great news. I did try and Google chrome is not supposed, so stuck with ie. Any idea when this would be available?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-01-25 15:08
    No idea. From my end things happen when I'm lucky enough to have a free hour or so.
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