I thought that I might be able to speedup UEZ's Rotating Earth build 2019-04-14 https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27543 by tweaking his trig functions a tiny bit, but no luck however, if you use -gen gcc then they may be a bit faster, but not necessarily, depends on the O level...

in case anyone wants the latest binutils-2.3.2

ok, got it :-)

@deltarho[1859] try the following little test program, it's part of the test suite my guess is that it will run on fb_gcc 8.3 and earlier, the same code runs OK on my Mac with Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5) FB from git 2019-20-08 #ifndef __FBCUNIT_CONSOLE_BI_INCLUDE__ #define __FBCU...

hello fxm
I had a quick look, and it looks very good to me, thank you :-)

thanks deltarho[1859]
btw, it was your initiative that sparked interest in more recent gcc toolchains, so kudos to you :-)

@deltarho[1859] all you really need is iup.dll, just place the dll where your program resides, fbc will link against the dll this approach is good for testing, but I would rather make an import lib of iup.dll and place it in the lib folder. or you could instead of an import lib place a copy of iup.d...

found this http://weekendcode.phatcode.net/sub/fbstyle.html

@coderjeff thank you for your continuing work on improving FB. to tell the truth, I was not planing to post on this forum again, way too embarrassed, nevertheless, here I am. I am a beginner programmer, and publishing FB builds is simply out of my league, you might call me a script kiddie -- without...

@deltarho[1859] and anyone else at this point I don't recommend any of my builds, the gcc version that gave no warnings building fbc was 7.4.0, the higher versions gave a number of warnings and also failed the test suite I will remove any links on the FreeBASIC-1.06.0-Win gcc-9.1 thread and as far a...

@deltarho[1859] try the following little test program, it's part of the test suite my guess is that it will run on fb_gcc 8.3 and earlier, the same code runs OK on my Mac with Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5) FB from git 2019-20-08 #ifndef __FBCUNIT_CONSOLE_BI_INCLUDE__ #define __FBCUN...

@deltarho[1859] I have not tried to run the tests with the gcc 7.3 toolchain, it could very well pass the tests ok, I am reluctant to learn anymore than I have to about the intricacies of linux tools, which is my problem, right now, I know just barely enough to be dangerous. I am compiling and am go...

@deltarho[1859] I suspect that these errors occur because of incompatible libtool, the msy2 shell works OK to build FB, unfortunately for me, it does not work so well doing the tests. I think that the FB build is OK, it's just that the libtool is not compatible with the toolchain. I hope that coderJ...

@coderJeff I commend your caution, so far in my tests of gcc 7.4.0 i686 fbc make unit-tests, there are some warnings "Object files or libraries with mixed multithreading" I had an error running the same with the 64-bit build, I am trying different binutils now to see if it solves the probl...

I will log any warnings of the FBC build process and of the tests suite on each build, this will take some time.