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{{implementation|BASIC}}'''FreeBASIC''' is a free/[[open source]] (GPL), 32-bit [[BASIC]] compiler for [[Microsoft]] [[Windows]], protected-mode DOS (via a DOS extender), [[Linux]], [[BSD|FreeBSD]], and the Xbox. |
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It makes use of the GNU binutils programming tools as backends, and can produce console, [[QuickBASIC]]-compatible graphical and [[GUI]] executables, along with dynamic and static libraries. A [[GCC]] frontend is under development, which will enable compilation for many more operating systems than currently supported. |
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Currently, software libraries like [[GTK+]], GSL, [[:Category:SDL|SDL]], [[wp:Allegro library|Allegro]], [[Lua]] and [[OpenGL]] can be used directly (no wrappers, only function and structure prototypes), and more are being added on every new release. A complete set of the Windows [[API]] headers is also included. |
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The compiler, and its nearly 90,000 lines of code, was, and still is, compiled by itself (in other words, FreeBASIC is a [[wp:Self-hosting|self-hosting compiler]]). The first version of FreeBASIC was written in [[Visual Basic]] for DOS for that purpose. |
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==See also== |
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* [[wp:FreeBASIC|FreeBASIC]] on Wikipedia |
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* [http://www.freebasic.net/ FreeBASIC homepage] |
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