Hosted Version of Nightly Build

Hawk

Hi,
I just tried to run the Hosted version of BASIC Engine (v0.89) on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine and it told me I had to run it as root.
$ ./basic needs to run as root using sudo (sorry)
Now I'm cautious of running programs as root, and besides, I was able to run this happily on another machine (Debian Buster) without having to have root privaledges.

Is there something that I've done wrong?
Why would it be different?
Thanks.

UPDATE:
I just downloaded the latest version (basicengine-hosted-x86_64-v0.89-3-gb24b70.tar.gz) and tried it on my Debian machine and got the same error...needs to run as root using sudo (sorry).
This is a shame. What happened betweeen the earlier versions and the current version that introduced this limitation?

uli

The hosted build is not really for production. It's intended to be used as a debugging tool for the ESP8266 version. It tries to mimic the behavior as closely as possible, and to achieve that it does a chroot() into the Engine BASIC "root" directory. That's what the root rights are required for.

It's pretty much completely obsolete by now, and I would recommend to use the SDL version instead.

Hawk

Thanks Uli, I've now built the SDL version and am using it for development.