FreeBASIC
FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC
compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features
such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, object
orientation, and many others.
Specifically, the FreeBASIC project is a set of
cross-platform development
tools initially created by Andre Victor, consisting of a compiler,
GNU-based
assembler, linker and archiver, and supporting runtime libraries,
including a software-based graphics library. The compiler, fbc,
currently supports building for i386-based architectures. The project
also contains thin bindings (header files) to some popular 3rd party
libraries such as the
C runtime library, Allegro, SDL, OpenGL, GTK, and many others,
as well as example programs for many of these libraries.
FreeBASIC is a high-level programming language supporting
procedural, object-orientated and meta-programming paradigms, with a
syntax
compatible to Microsoft QuickBasic.
FreeBASIC is a self-hosting compiler, being roughly 120,000
lines of code (compiler core only, not including libraries).
It makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends
and can produce console and graphical/GUI executables, besides dynamic
and static libraries. FreeBASIC fully supports the use of C libraries
and partial C++ library support. This lets programmers use and create
libraries for C and many other languages.
FreeBASIC 0.24.0
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Price
Free to download
Size
4.6MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Andre Victor, Angelo Mottola, Daniel R. Verkamp,
Jeff Marshall, Mark Junker and many others
Website
www.freebasic.net
System Requirements
libc, libm, libpthead, and libdl
gfx programs require libX11, libXext, LibXpm, libXrender, and libXrandr
Support
Sites:
Forums,
Wiki,
Tutorials,
SourceForge
Project Page
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Features include:
- A large number of variable types available
- Arrays
- BASIC Compatibility
- Built-in gfx library
- Clean Syntax
- Create OBJ's
- Debugging support
- Enumerations (ENUM's)
- Escape characters inside literal strings
- Function overloading
- Inline Assembly
- Most of the known C libraries can be used directly, without
wrappers
- Multi-platform
- Multi-threading
- Name spaces
- Optimized code generation
- Optional function arguments
- Pointers
- Preprocessor
- Typedefs
- Unicode support
- Unlimited number of symbols
- User-defined Types (UDT's)
- Variable initializers (including arrays and UDT's)
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