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Libraries in FB

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How can I include libraries in FreeBasic?
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Hey Bill

Ask Linus Torvalds...

You could try '$include:'path/filename'

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:P Are you really Bill Gates? or some silly joker?

Anyway, you can't just use any lib in FB, ones used in QB won't work unless you find a ported version of them, and yep, Seb is right...

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'$include: 'path/name.bi'
Or, you can do this:

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#include 'path/name.bi'
More info at: http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=FBWiki

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FreeBasic questions are allowed here too. In fact, I encourage them. The more people that switch to FB, the better.
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But I just switched to PDS... and I don't even have FreeBasic... but since I've read that FreeBasic is (should) 100% compatible with QB... I figured hey... you should be able to load .bi files the same way.

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Seb: I was responding to the Guest's post directly above mine, not you!

Anyway, yes, you should check out FB. It's not 100% QB-compatible, but you can convert just about any QB program to FB without much of a hassle. Plus it's so refreshing to make programs that other people can actually run. The rest of the world uses Win32 PCs, and can't get complicated QB programs to run. I use WinXP, and I can't run most QB programs. Just about anything that loads an external library crashes and burns on XP or Win2000. It's extremely frustrating, and if I didn't have an obligation to try out QB programs for the magazine, I would just give up there.

Anyway, why would you pigeonhole yourself to a market of a couple hundred QB programmers with old DOS/Win95/98 machines, when you could create essentially the same program on a platform that 85-90% of the entire world can run?
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Is he a joker?
Don't make me laugh...
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Hey pete, did you get my QBEXP article?
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Yeah... FreeBASIC is the new wave,.. powerful, brillant, ect, ect....

You can find tons of cool examples here, just goto my downloads section:
http://members.aol.com/rattrapmax6/xtrgraphics.html

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But my fake OS is a DOS program... :(. It's not suppose to work yet in Windows.... :twisted: Someday it will!!!

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Seb, I could port it to FB then it would be linux, windows and dos in 1.
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No.. it be FBinux.. :P

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Or just Binux... 2 types of basic!
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But... but Binux sounds like been ucks, no good... fbinux sounds like (sorry f*cking been ucks, whatever that may be) It's just the name of the core... It stays Qbinux. :lol:

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