Also wondering if free Basic is actually being used professionally for building applications? Basic is good to throw algorithm ideas together to test them before writing them in another language, it wouldn't surprise me if others do the same. I've always found Basic the easiest language to spot and...

Just a mention that 1.10.2 compiles fine on a Raspberry Pi 5 under RPiOS Bookworm Aarch64 $ fbc --version FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.10.2 (2023-12-31), built for linux-aarch64 (64bit) $ file /usr/local/bin/fbc /usr/local/bin/fbc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamica...

Yeah, XML is a nasty file format, it's far more complicated than it looks and full-featured libraries are large. Whatever xml files you're dealing with probably don't use all those features though, so a small library could be used. Paul Doe has one for reading XML written in FB as part of fb-framew...

Are there any simple XML editors/libraries/whatever that will play nicely with a fb program? I've no idea why small config files use XML, its an unnecessary overhead in every aspect, I need to make some small changes, changing numeric values. I have a feeling I may have overlooked some existing faci...

Presumably Windows still has compatibility modes? Not they ever do anything for the programs I really need them for.

Hi, if you were wondering about the ARMv6 default in my "linux-armv6-rpi" builds from https://users.freebasic-portal.de/stw/builds/linux-armv6-rpi/ they indeed use a single-line patch for fb.bi as explained in the introduction post back then https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p...

Very good, its not very sociable which is quite amusing, its better than the chatbots that are over-talkative and have silly subject changes.

I had a minor grammar fail which might just be a colloquial thing?

"Chatbot: why did you mentioned it?

@deltarho[1859] The forum was off line for me until today so if you have left the thread you probably will not read this post. The point I wanted to make is that Chatgpt is not an AI individual out to proactively and deliberately deceive or manipulate the human race for its own nefarious purposes. ...

Yes, I drifted, the intent was to develop that humans, AI and programming are conjoined by morality, the more AI develops the more machine morality will become an issue, and we have enough issues already. While I don't think we will ever achieve proper AI, the spoofs will appear more and more like A...

Humans actively seek reinforcement of their beliefs and desires never mind how clever and informed they are... I believe that some who are "clever and informed" "actively seek reinforcement of their beliefs and desires" but the majority of them do not. I wrote above "Yes, t...

Whether it is the only danger is a matter of opinion, but it is a significant danger, as the great unwashed believe it does know what it is talking about. By the great unwashed, I mean those who do not have the means to check for contradictions because of a lack of education. A large proportion of ...

Very good, I wasn't expecting 3D with fade, fill lines work well also.

I am aware that stw said he was considering updating his build system and that he'd had major problems with some of the cross-compiling in the past. I was hoping to build the armv6 independently in case he doesn't continue. FBC reports as "linux-arm, armv6, 32bit" on stw's builds for the P...

Failed miserably, I tried ... make -B TARGET_CPU=armv6 but of course make install used the old linux-arm directory instead of the linux-armv6 directory. I guess I could copy them in manually but piecemeal fixes have a habit of biting. Why is fighting systems and tools always ten times more difficult...

Yes, thanks ... FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.10.0 (2023-02-20), built for linux-arm (32bit) Copyright (C) 2004-2023 The FreeBASIC development team. target: linux-arm, armv7-a, 32bit backend: gcc Whereas stw gives FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.10.0 (2022-06-24), built for linux-arm (32bit) Copyrig...