... not much time for coding recently. Finally i was able to make it work - thanks for your help and advice. The problem wasn´t related to MSYS2 at all. It was due to different gcc versions. As a Windows guy i´m not that familiar with all this Unix stuff, so i thought it would be nice to stay on kno...

I´m compiling in Windows, therefore i installed MSYS2 and MinGW (V. 7.3, 32 and 64 bit). My desktop link for compiling the runtime library is: E:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -msys -c "./rtl.sh" and rtl.sh is: #!/bin/bash cd .. cd /d/freebasic/jk-fork-old export PATH=/e/MinGW/mingw32/bin:$PATH m...

I agree that different GCC versions might cause problems. But in this case i suspect a more basic failure like a missing command line switch, an improper setup or something like that. In fact the orginal libfb.a doesn´t contain "_imp____acrt_iob_func" at all, in the new one you find it 15 ...

No - they are different (5.2 vs. 7.3 for the runtime). But how could this be a problem, the library format shouldn´t change between versions - or am i wrong here?

Ok - "make rtlib TARGET=i686-w64-mingw32" runs without errors now and builds four files in \lib\freebasic\win32: fbextra.x, fbrt0.o. libfb.a and libfbmt.a. Fbextra.x is the same as the existing one in my FreeBASIC installation, so i copy the other ones into \lib\win32 in my FreeBASIC insta...

Hi all,


V 2.4.5.4 is online, fixed minor visual and help issues, adaptions and additions in the help file


JK

Ok, good to know that - thanks

JK

What is wrong with my code? '#compiler freebasic '#compile console 32 function my_func2 (byval z as zstring ptr) as long '*********************************************************************************************** ' '*******************************************************************************...

I finally ran a successful built!

JK

It sounds like maybe you've taken the ffi.h.in file, and renamed it?

Yes, that´s what i did.

That file has to pass through the configure/make process to fill in some of the variables, in order to become a valid header file that works with your target.

Thanks, i didn´t know that!


JK

Trying to compile the runtime i ran into this problem: CC src/rtlib/obj/win32/thread_call.o In file included from src/rtlib/thread_call.c:33:0: E:/MinGW/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/ffi.h:61:9: error: macro names must be identifiers #ifndef @TARGET@ ^ compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors...

Hi all,

V 2.4.5.3 is online, there was an unnecessary error message starting PB-Forms or the Visual Designer, when there were no open files in the IDE

JK

Thanks for the info!

JK

Reading the docs, it seems i cannot have unicode file names , but i can read and write unicode data . And this is independent of the file encoding, i can read and write WSTRINGs from and to an ASCII encoded file, so basically unicode strings work with files, but real unicode file names fail. If you ...

I need this for a generic array sort macro


JK