Anyone interested in porting of the FreeBASIC compiler?

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#1

I wanted to do but seems not easy. The gfxlib2 we could use the opengl render, I think, since we don’t have X11. We could treat Haiku as a Unix to minimize the works. The compiler could be the easy part, but the rtlib is not. I don’t know anything about development on Haiku yet.

Please have a look into this:

We need to create a new src/rtlib/haiku and port the code above for FreeBSD to Haiku.

This needs an Haiku experts. I’m just a hobbyist liked to hack. These low level stuffs are beyond my ability. Anyone interested?

#2

I don’t know much more than you about those graphics libraries but I’m writing a Yab to C++ trans-piler. Would something like Yab satisfy your programming needs?

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#3

Hi have start to port freebasic, but it isn’t easy for me. I am also a Hobby coder.

What kind of program do you want to program?

Yab can be good engough for that.

#4

Does Yab means Yabasic? I prefer FreeBASIC because it has OOP support. FreeBASIC also compiles into a standalone binary. Yabasic seems to be interpreted even though it was said that you could bind the interpreter into the script to create an executable.

#5

Yes yab is based on yabasic. It is a interpteter. You can run yab as script or bind it to the yab binary as executeable file.

Yab is not only a yabasic port, you can use api commands to create programs and games in the style of haiku.

I like and love it.

#6

An other interesting interpreter are egsl - easy game scripting with lua, but it does not run anymore.

The egsl ide are written in yab (for haiku)

#7

Native executables are on the way. My transpiler is an export engine to C++ syntax so you won’t need the interpreter any more for binding. However, in order to make nonstructured commands work (like “on n gosub”), the possibility of OOP is not there.

#8

i try to use freebasic with dosbox in haiku-os,but failed.
and it can not configure and make install clean from the source.
then, is there another language for layman with haiku?

#9

If you are interested on Basic for Haiku YAB is available GitHub - HaikuArchives/Yab: Yab is a complete BASIC programming language for Haiku

#10

yab… pkgman install yab-ide will install yab, the documentation and a very powerful ide programmed in yab.

https://yab.orgfree.com has more information, the forum has several examples and code snippets.

#11

Yab is available in Haikudepot with the version 1.8.1.

More Information can be found onto

Https://yab.besly.de

#12

i install yab-IDE ， and how to translate yabasic code into machine code ? then, haiku can run it directly.
or any other language for layman?

#13

Yab is interpreted. I started to write a Yab to C++ transpiler until it looked like nobody would use it. The code it generates is not pretty. If completed, it could support all but maybe 2 or 3 commands that require the interpreter.

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#14

yab is like any basic, it is interpreted. use #!yab as the first line of code and set the file to executable. then one only needs to double-click like any other program to have it run. Look at the example code to see how well yab integrates with Haiku.

#15

A yab to c++ transpiler would be great. It would let one use basic to code and get the speed and performance of c++ code after compiling.

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#16

it seems like yabasic is suitable to be the macro command with libreoffice.
this is important for complication office work

#17

You cn also use the buildfactory.
Regards lorglas

#18

Do you have an example. I think, it’s not implemented at the moment.

Regards lorglas

#19

Would be a useful tool, no doubt. Optimizing and cleaning up resulting code can be done in a next version. Just release it & keep up the good work.

#20

It’s open-source. Feel free to fork it on GitHub.

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