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1 2 FreeBASIC - A multi-platform BASIC Compiler 3 Copyright (C) 2004-2021 The FreeBASIC development team. 4 5 Official site: https://freebasic.net/ 6 Forum: https://freebasic.net/forum/ 7 Online manual: https://freebasic.net/wiki/DocToc 8 fbc project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/ 9 GitHub mirror: https://github.com/freebasic/fbc 10 Discord: https://discord.gg/286rSdK 11 IRC channel: ##freebasic at chat.freenode.net 12 Features: https://freebasic.net/wiki/CompilerFeatures 13 Requirements: https://freebasic.net/wiki/CompilerRequirements 14 15 FreeBASIC consists of fbc (the command line compiler), the runtime libraries 16 (libfb and libfbgfx), and FreeBASIC header files for third-party libraries. 17 In order to produce executables, fbc uses the GNU binutils (assembler, 18 linker). When compiling for architectures other than 32bit x86, fbc depends 19 on gcc to generate assembly. 20 21 Documentation of language features, compiler options and many other details 22 is available in the FB manual. For help & support, visit the FB forum! 23 24 o Installation & Usage 25 26 FreeBASIC gives you the FreeBASIC compiler program (fbc or fbc.exe), 27 plus the tools and libraries used by it. fbc is a command line program 28 that takes FreeBASIC source code files (*.bas) and compiles them into 29 executables. In the combined standalone packages for windows, the main 30 executable is named fbc32.exe (for 32-bit) and fbc64.exe (for 64-bit) 31 32 fbc is typically invoked by Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) or 33 text editors, from a terminal or command prompt, or through build-systems 34 such as makefiles. fbc itself is not a graphical code editor or IDE! 35 36 Win32 (similar for Win64): 37 Separate 32-bit and 64-bit standalone packages: 38 Download and extract latest: 39 - FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-win32.zip or FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-win32.7z for 32-bit 40 - FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-win64.zip or FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-win64.7z for 64-bit 41 Combined 32-bit and 64-bit standalone packages: 42 Download and extract latest: 43 - FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-winlibs-gcc-9.3.0.7z or 44 - FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-gcc-5.2.0.7z 45 - fbc32.exe and fbc64.exe are used instead of fbc.exe 46 47 Now you can use fbc.exe from the installation directory to compile FB 48 programs (*.bas files) into executables (*.exe files). Open a command 49 prompt (cmd.exe) and run fbc.exe from there, for example: 50 1. In the opened command prompt, type in the following command and 51 press ENTER: 52 > fbc.exe examples\hello.bas 53 2. This should have created examples\hello.exe in the FreeBASIC 54 installation directory. You can run it by entering: 55 > examples\hello.exe 56 57 A FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-win32.exe installer is also available but should 58 only be installed on win32 platforms. 59 1. Click Start -> FreeBASIC -> Open console (installer only) 60 2. In the opened command prompt, type in the following command and 61 press ENTER: 62 > fbc.exe examples\hello.bas 63 3. This should have created examples\hello.exe in the FreeBASIC 64 installation directory. You can run it by entering: 65 > examples\hello.exe 66 67 Optionally, you can install a text editor or IDE which will invoke fbc.exe 68 for you, for example: 69 WinFBE https://github.com/PaulSquires/WinFBE 70 FBIDE: https://fbide.freebasic.net/ 71 FBEdit: http://radasm.cherrytree.at/fbedit/ 72 73 Linux (if FreeBASIC is not available through your package manager): 74 Download and extract the latest FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-linux.tar.gz. Open a 75 terminal and cd into the extracted FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-linux directory, and 76 run "sudo ./install.sh -i" to copy the FB setup into /usr/local. 77 To compile FB programs, please install the following packages (names may 78 vary depending on your Linux distribution): 79 Debian/Ubuntu: 80 gcc libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev 81 libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev 82 libtinfo5 libgpm-dev 83 Fedora: 84 gcc ncurses-devel ncurses-compat-libs libffi-devel mesa-libGL-devel 85 libX11-devel libXext-devel libXrender-devel libXrandr-devel 86 libXpm-devel 87 If you want to use the 32bit version of FB on a 64bit system, it is 88 necessary to have the gcc 32bit multilib support and 32bit versions 89 of the libraries installed. 90 Debian/Ubuntu: 91 gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev libx11-dev:i386 libxext-dev:i386 92 libxrender-dev:i386 libxrandr-dev:i386 libxpm-dev:i386 libtinfo5:i386 93 94 Now you can use fbc to compile FB programs (*.bas files) into executables. 95 For example: 96 $ cd FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-linux/examples 97 $ fbc hello.bas 98 This should have created the hello program. You can run it by entering: 99 $ ./hello 100 101 Optionally, you can install a text editor or IDE which will invoke fbc for 102 your, for example: 103 Geany: https://geany.org (sudo apt-get install geany) 104 105 DOS: 106 Download and extract the latest FreeBASIC-x.xx.x-dos.zip. 107 108 Now you can use fbc.exe from the installation directory to compile FB 109 programs (*.bas files) into executables (*.exe files). For example: 110 > fbc.exe examples\hello.bas 111 This should have created examples\hello.exe. You can run it by entering: 112 > examples\hello.exe 113 114 o Licensing 115 116 The FreeBASIC compiler (fbc) is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 or later. 117 118 The FreeBASIC runtime library (libfb and the thread-safe version, libfbmt) 119 and the FreeBASIC graphics library (libfbgfx and the thread-safe version, 120 libfbgfxmt) are licensed under the GNU LGPLv2 or later, with this exception 121 to allow linking to it statically: 122 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give 123 you permission to link this library with independent modules to 124 produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these 125 independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting 126 executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, 127 for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the 128 license of that module. An independent module is a module which is 129 not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, 130 you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but 131 you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete 132 this exception statement from your version. 133 134 The FreeBASIC documentation is licensed under the GNU FDL. 135 136 Dependencies on third-party libraries: 137 138 The FreeBASIC runtime library uses LibFFI to implement the Threadcall 139 functionality. This means that, by default, FreeBASIC programs will be 140 linked against LibFFI when using Threadcall. LibFFI is released under 141 the MIT/Expat license, see doc/libffi-license.txt. 142 143 By default, FreeBASIC programs are linked against various system and/or 144 support libraries, depending on the platform. Those include the DJGPP 145 libraries used by FreeBASIC for DOS and the MinGW/GCC libraries used by 146 FreeBASIC for Windows. 147 148 o Included/used third-party tools and libraries: 149 150 - DJGPP http://www.delorie.com/ 151 - GCC https://gcc.gnu.org/ 152 - GNU binutils https://gnu.org/software/binutils/ 153 - GNU debugger https://gnu.org/software/gdb/ 154 - GoRC http://godevtool.com/ 155 - LibFFI https://sourceware.org/libffi/ 156 - MinGW http://www.mingw.org/ 157 - MinGW-w64 https://mingw-w64.org/ 158 - OpenXDK http://openxdk.sourceforge.net/ 159 - TDM-GCC http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ 160 - WinLibs https://winlibs.com/ 161 162 o Credits 163 164 Project members: 165 - Andre Victor T. Vicentini (av1ctor[at]yahoo.com.br) 166 Founder, main compiler developer, author of many parts of the runtime, 167 lead developer 2004 to 2010 168 FB headers (FBSWIG) & emscripten port 169 too many additions and improvements to list 170 - Angelo Mottola (a.mottola[at]libero.it) 171 Author of the FB graphics library, built-in threads, thread-safe 172 runtime, ports I/O, dynamic library loading, Linux port. 173 - Bryan Stoeberl (b_stoeberl[at]yahoo.com) 174 SSE/SSE2 floating point math, AST vectorization. 175 - Daniel C. Klauer (daniel.c.klauer[at]web.de) 176 lead developer 2010 to 2017 177 automatic header / bindings generation (fbfrog) 178 FB releases 0.21 to 1.05.0, C & LLVM backends, 64bit port, 179 dynamic arrays in UDTs, virtual methods, preprocessor-only mode, 180 many fixes and improvements.to compiler, rtlib & gfxlib2 181 too many additions and improvements to list 182 - Daniel R. Verkamp (i_am_drv[at]yahoo.com) 183 DOS, XBox, Darwin, *BSD ports, DLL and static library automation, 184 VB-compatible runtime functions, compiler optimizations, 185 miscellaneous fixes and improvements. 186 - Ebben Feagan (sir_mud[at]users.sourceforge.net) 187 FB headers, C emitter 188 - Jeff Marshall (coder[at]execulink.com) 189 FB releases 0.17 to 0.20, and later 1.06.0 and up 190 FB documentation (wiki maintenance, fbdocs offline-docs generator), 191 Gosub/Return, profiling support, dialect specifics, DOS serial driver, 192 miscellaneous fixes and improvements.to compiler, rtlib & gfxlib2 193 lead developer since 2017 194 - Mark Junker (mjscod[at]gmx.de) 195 Author of huge parts of the runtime (printing support, date/time 196 functions, SCR/LPTx/COM/console/keyboard I/O), Cygwin port, 197 first FB installer scripts. 198 - Matthew Fearnley (matthew.w.fearnley[at]gmail.com) 199 Print Using & Co, ImageInfo, and others, dialect specifics, 200 optimization improvements in the compiler, many fixes and improvements. 201 rtlib & gfxlib2 fixes and improvements 202 documentation and examples 203 forum administrator and moderator since forever 204 - Ruben Rodriguez (rubentbstk[at]gmail.com) 205 Var keyword, const specifier, placement new, operator overloading and 206 other OOP-related work, C BFD wrapper, many fixes and improvements. 207 - Simon Nash 208 AndAlso/OrElse operators, ellipsis for array initializers, 209 miscellaneous fixes and improvements. 210 211 Contributors: 212 - 1000101 213 gfxlib2 patches, e.g. image buffer alignment 214 - Abdullah Ali (voodooattack[at]hotmail.com) 215 Windows NT DDK headers & examples 216 - adeyblue 217 Direct2D windows driver 218 run time and gfx library improvements and fixes 219 - AGS 220 gdbm, zlib, Mini-XML, PCRE headers 221 - Angelo Rosina (angros47[at]gmail.com) 222 gfxlib2 extensions for OpenGL 2D rendering 223 integration of threading and dynamic libraries for DOS port (by monochromator) 224 integration of emscripten branch and improvements 225 - Claudio Tinivella (tinycla[at]yahoo.it) 226 Gtk tutorials 227 - Chris Davies (c.g.davies[at]gmail.com) 228 OpenAL headers & examples 229 - Dinosaur 230 CGUI headers 231 - D.J.Peters 232 ARM port, ODE headers & examples, Win32 API header fixes 233 - Dumbledore 234 wx-c headers & examples 235 - dr0p (dr0p[at]perfectbg.com) 236 PostgreSQL headers & examples 237 - Edmond Leung (leung.edmond[at]gmail.com) 238 SDL headers & examples 239 - Eric Lope (vic_viperph[at]yahoo.com) 240 OpenGL & GLU headers & examples, examples/gfx/rel-*.bas demos 241 - Florent Heyworth (florent.heyworth[at]swissonline.ch) 242 Win32 API sql/obdc headers 243 - fsw (fsw.fb[at]comcast.net) 244 Win32 API headers, Gtk/Glade/wx-c examples 245 - fxm 246 documentation writer and manager for many years 247 detailed technical articles, bug tracking and investigations 248 documentation forum moderator 249 - Garvan O'Keeffe (sisophon2001[at]yahoo.com) 250 FB ports of many NeHe OpenGL lessons, PDFlib examples 251 - Hans L. Nemeschkal (Hans.Leo.Nemeschkal[at]univie.ac.at) 252 DISLIN headers 253 - Jofers (spam[at]betterwebber.com) 254 ThreadCall keyword, libffi/libjit headers, FreeType examples 255 - Jose Manuel Postigo (postigo[at]uma.es) 256 Linux serial devices support 257 - Laanan Fisher (laananfisher[at]gmail.com) 258 FB test suite using CUnit 259 - Laurent Gras / SARG (debug[at]aliceadsl.fr) 260 gas64 backend emitter 261 improvements and fixes for stabs debugging 262 fbdebugger project https://users.freebasic-portal.de/sarg 263 - Luther Ramsey (luther.ramsey[at]gmail.com) 264 freebasic.net forums moderator 265 - Matthew Riley (pestery) 266 OpenGL, GLFW, glext, FreeGLUT, cryptlib headers 267 - Matthias Faust (matthias_faust[at]web.de) 268 SDL_ttf headers & examples 269 - Marzec 270 SDL headers, SDL_bassgl, SDL_opengl and SDL_key examples 271 First file routines for FB's rtlib 272 - MJK 273 big_int header fixes 274 - MOD 275 wx-c, BASS headers; -lang qb support for built-in macros, 276 "real" Rnd() algorithm 277 - Nek (dave[at]nodtveidt.net) 278 Win32 API headers 279 - Hung Nguyen Gia (gh_origin[at]zohomail.com) 280 Solaris and DragonFly porting and testing 281 - Paul Squires (support[at]planetsquires.com) 282 WinFBE IDE project and fbc compiler distribution bundle 283 - Plasma 284 FMOD and BASS headers & examples 285 - Ralph Versteegen 286 fixes / improvements to compiler, rtlib, gfxlib2, tests and headers 287 - Randy Keeling (randy[at]keeling.com) 288 GSL matrix example 289 - Saga Musix (Jojo) 290 BASS examples with sounds 291 - Sisophon2001 292 gfxlib2 fixes, Nehe OpenGL lesson ports 293 - Stefan Wurzinger (swurzinger[at]gmx.at) 294 compiler, runtime library and documentation generator improvements 295 daily development builds, documentation builds and testing 296 header/bindings updates 297 - Sterling Christensen (sterling[at]engineer.com) 298 Ex-project-member, author of FB's initial QB-like graphics library 299 - TJF (Thomas.Freiherr[at]gmx.net) 300 ARM port, GTK+, glib, Cairo, Pango headers & examples, 301 SQLiteExtensions headers 302 - zydon 303 Win32 API examples 304 305 Greetings: 306 - Plasma 307 Owner of the freebasic.net domain and main site hoster, many thanks to 308 him. 309 - VonGodric 310 Author of the first FreeBASIC IDE: FBIDE. 311 - Everybody that helped writing the documentation (and in special Nexinarus 312 who started it) 313 https://freebasic.net/wiki/ContributorList 314 - All users that reported bugs, requested features and as such helped 315 improving the compiler, language and run-time libraries.