Stand alone MetaEditor and compiler

#1
First Post: May 27, 2008 6:26am May 27, 2008 6:26am

rusty105
| Joined Sep 2006 | Status: Climbing up, pip by pip | 259 Posts

OK, This sounds weird, but it is not. I want to be able to edit .mq4 files and compile them on a workstations that does not have Metatrader installed. At 'work' we have Winxp Pro, and 'installing' anything requires Admin rights, which I understand. i want to be able to do some work on an EA I am writing during my lunch and breaks, So I copied the MetaEditor to a thumb drive, and it will run from the thumb drive. When I try to compile I get "Could not launch the compiler". I took a quick look at the full install of Metatrader at home, and I didn't see a compiler program. Was I looking in the wrong area?? What do I need to get the compiler running??

Thanks
Rusty

#2
May 27, 2008 7:40am May 27, 2008 7:40am

4xCoder
| Joined Dec 2005 | Status: Will Code for Pips | 137 Posts

Look for the program called MetaLang.exe in your MetaTrader folder. That's the compiler.

#3
May 27, 2008 7:48am May 27, 2008 7:48am

rusty105
| Joined Sep 2006 | Status: Climbing up, pip by pip | 259 Posts

Thanks, I'll copy that over at lunch

Rusty

#4
May 27, 2008 8:05am May 27, 2008 8:05am

Vensik
| Joined Apr 2006 | Status: N2PIPN | 544 Posts

I think I remember installing Metatrader to my thumb drive.

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#5
May 27, 2008 8:16am May 27, 2008 8:16am

Ronald Raygun
Joined Jul 2007 | Status: 33 y/o Investor/Trader/Programmer | 5,016 Posts

You can install the full metatrader platform on a thumb drive (at least 128 MB) just don't try to do any backtesting.

#6
May 27, 2008 11:57am May 27, 2008 11:57am

mladen
Joined Apr 2007 | Status: ... | 817 Posts

No need to install it at all
Just copy the whole thing from your machine to some folder (any folder) and start Terminal for trading and testing or MetaEditor for editing and compiling

Quoting rusty105

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OK, This sounds weird, but it is not. I want to be able to edit .mq4 files and compile them on a workstations that does not have Metatrader installed. At 'work' we have Winxp Pro, and 'installing' anything requires Admin rights, which I understand. i want to be able to do some work on an EA I am writing during my lunch and breaks, So I copied the MetaEditor to a thumb drive, and it will run from the thumb drive. When I try to compile I get "Could not launch the compiler". I took a quick look at the full install of Metatrader at home, and I didn't see a compiler program. Was I looking in the wrong area?? What do I need to get the compiler running??

Thanks
Rusty

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#7
Mar 3, 2014 5:01am Mar 3, 2014 5:01am