Running PB/CC executables under Linux

[Guy Macon]

One of my favorite tools that I use when designing hardware and
software products is the PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PB/CC)
[ http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbcc/ ]. It is perfect for
rapid development, exercising hardware, and writing utilities.

Alas, it only runs under Windows. I know that I can dual boot
or run Windows under Linux with VMWare or Win4Lin, but that's
clumsy. I want to run the .exe files that PB/CC creates directly
under Linux. (Running the PB/CC compiler itself would be a nice
bonus as well).

Something that I have been meaning to try for a long time is to
see if WINE [ http://www.winehq.com/ ] will allow me to run
PB/CC executables under Linux. Has anyone out there ever tried
this? How about the PB/CC compiler itself?

[Dominic Sexton]

Post by Guy Macon
One of my favorite tools that I use when designing hardware and
software products is the PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PB/CC)
[ http://www.powerbasic.com/products/pbcc/ ]. It is perfect for
rapid development, exercising hardware, and writing utilities.
Alas, it only runs under Windows. I know that I can dual boot
or run Windows under Linux with VMWare or Win4Lin, but that's
clumsy. I want to run the .exe files that PB/CC creates directly
under Linux. (Running the PB/CC compiler itself would be a nice
bonus as well).
Something that I have been meaning to try for a long time is to
see if WINE [ http://www.winehq.com/ ] will allow me to run
PB/CC executables under Linux. Has anyone out there ever tried
this? How about the PB/CC compiler itself?

I have tried a couple of my PB Win programs under Wine and there were no
problems. They were not particularly complex programs though so it
didn't exactly stretch the emulation.

I used a Knoppix boot CD as a convenient way to test. See:

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

[d.j.peters]

Post by Guy Macon
...
One of my favorite tools that I use when designing hardware and
software products is the PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PB/CC)
...

Use FreeBASIC vor DOS, WINOWS and Linux (Inlineassembler,pointers on
pointers on ...,Threads,Timer,Func/Sub pointers and and and and)

http://www.freebasic.net

Joshy

[Guy Macon]

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Post by d.j.peters

Post by Guy Macon
...
One of my favorite tools that I use when designing hardware and
software products is the PowerBASIC Console Compiler (PB/CC)
...

Use FreeBASIC vor DOS, WINOWS and Linux (Inlineassembler,pointers on
pointers on ...,Threads,Timer,Func/Sub pointers and and and and)
http://www.freebasic.net

How does it compare to PowerBASIC? The version 0.13 scares me a bit;
does that number reflect an incomplete/buggy beta, or are the authors
just being coy?



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Hallo Guy!

Post by Guy Macon

Post by d.j.peters
Use FreeBASIC vor DOS, WINOWS and Linux (Inlineassembler,pointers on
pointers on ...,Threads,Timer,Func/Sub pointers and and and and)
http://www.freebasic.net

How does it compare to PowerBASIC?

It's almost the same, but the original-installation-file includes only the
compiler. You must download an IDE additionally. There are two IDE's for
freeBASIC, you'll find the links to the developers on the freeBASIC-
Homepage.

Post by Guy Macon
The version 0.13 scares me a bit; does that number reflect an
incomplete/buggy beta, or are the authors just being coy?

I've the version 0.13 and it's working great here on my computer,
no problems at all! And if you have a problem - there is a great
community for freeBASIC, there you'll get every help you want.

Kind regards from Germany

Peter