Where to get Freebasic.

[Shockwave]

If you've just happened on this and want to get your hands on Freebasic, you can get it from;
www.freebasic.net

The benefits of it are that it produces small exe files and if you use the tinypct lib, they UPX down real small and the speed is up there with the best too.

The best download link would be the FBIDE because it installs everything for you, though you are not tied to using this editor if you don't want to.

Best of all FB is free.

[Clyde]

And also today, a New testing version was released. Visit the news section at FreeBasicNet ( address in Shockies Post )  for download instructions.
If you come a cropper on trying to find the CVS repository for updating any include files, the address is: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fbc

[Shockwave]

Cheers Clyde

[Clyde]

There's also now new Headers for FB: Please read the link topic carefully.

Free Basic Headers

[Shockwave]

Thanks for the linky Clyde.

[Clyde]

News just in: New Headers Updated.

More information available Latest Headers

[.:] Druid [:.]

A silly (and usual question ) : where to start?  I mean, I never tried it and would like to.  Ok, I'm a bit lazy hehe...Is there some cool links for beginners you would recommend?

[Shockwave]

Ok, have you installed freebasic?
What programming experience do you have?
If you give us some ideas of what sort of stuff you want to do we can either explain how it's done with example source code or link you into the right tutorials.
The main thing to do is ask ask ask.
The more questions you ask us, the more you'll learn.

[Clyde]

And that applies to everyone. It's what were here for. So please dont be shy.

[Pritchard]

And if you use windows, and want the latest CVS update, head to Qbasic.com and there's my daily update of the compiler in the files area.

Ah, whatever.  Here's the link to save you some trouble: http://www.qbasic.com/wbb/filebase_entry.php?entryid=77&sid=


It should be noted that you must already have FreeBASIC installed to use the update files.  You just copy and paste the Daily CVS updates over your old files.

[Clyde]

Thankyou very much Pritchard, and a warm to the board dude.

Cheers,
Clyde.

[Shockwave]

Thanks Pritchard

[Hotshot]

IF people want FREEBASIC Compier Directly then here the link

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=fbide&filename=FBIde_0.4.6_FreeBASIC_0.15.exe&use_mirror=heanet

[Shockwave]

Hotshot, that's an old version of FB so use the other links in this post instead

[Zeb]

I've never heard of FreeBASIC before - what is it mainly geared towards?

[Clyde]

Here's a little bit of info about FreeBASIC on the wiki: http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=CompilerAbout

[Clyde]

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It Would be cool if everyone who uses FreeBASIC are using the same version as each other, i am on Version 0.20.0 Beta. Will check the official site for an newer version. This will avoid compatability issues with new libs etc. And they wouldnt do updates if it didnt fix things and improve stability etc. If you dont agree, then no worries.
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[Hotshot]

Just letting you know that it is out 

Version 0.23 released

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18320