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Compilation
A specific page for compilation errors.

Open a text file with gvle: encoding error
If you get this type of error: 'This file isn't UTF-8 valid. Please convert this file with your source code editor' it is probably because the text editor embedded in gvle exclusively uses the UTF-8 encoding. Please, convert your file using your preferred text editor software or one of the following good solutions.


 * vim, gvim (Windows & Linux), open one or several files and write on the command line:
 * iconv (Linux) a specialized command to automatize the conversion process (two examples):

Link edition error while running VLE or GLVE
If, after the installation of the Deb or the RPM package for VLE, you note that one of the dynamic libraries is not available (for instance: libboost-filesystem-1.34.1.so), it means that the binary package we provide is not compatible with your OS. If the missing library is not available in the good version for your OS, we advice you to compile sources of VLE on your OS.

Installing a new version of VLE: error detecting Boost
If you have an arror related to the Boost library after the installation of VLE for Windows, it is probably because you have already another version of VLE installed. It is not recommended to install two different version of VLE. If you really want several version of VLE, you have to modify environment variables by hand i.e. delete references to the old version and keep the new ones for the 4 following variables:  BOOST_ROOT, BOOST_INCLUDEDIR, BOOST_LIBRARYDIR et PKG_CONFIG_PATH.