@MrSwiss
I find the forum search at times totally useless, sometimes I need to resort to Google search instead.

@marpon
the line
result = Open (File For Binary Access Write as #myHandle)
should be
result = Open (FileName For Binary Access Write as #myHandle)

it compressed the file ok, but how would I go about uncompressing the file?

thank you marpon :-)

hello marpon
can you give an example that gives a compressed file?
the program ran just fine but there's no compressed file as output

thank you deltarho[1859]
very useful information :-)

thanks deltarho[1859]
didn't know about Driver Booster https://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php looks like a Windows must-have
what backup software do you use?

in case you don't know, you can download a Windows 10 ISO for restoration purposes from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO I have not had to restore my Windows installation but I downloaded the ISO just in case, not sure if you will need a product key for activation or no...

-gen gas64 and also -g are mandatory. Without -gen gas64 the default compiler backend is selected (on 64bit --> gcc). I could force the gas64 option when using fbc64/32_gas64.exe ???? Without -g it could work with very small codes as the registers are not anymore freed each line. since FB-Win32 use...

@jj2007
I suggest

I tried to compile FB for Cygwin without success, but I have but one problem when building for windows see viewtopic.php?t=24868
perhaps it will be useful to you

@dodicat
if nothing else works, I suggest factory reset, not sure that's the right phrase but you get the idea

here are 18 ShaderToy's see viewtopic.php?p=217073#p217073
also see ShaderToy BETA

compiles and runs ok on my Mac :-)

dodicat wrote:(How can you switch off strip from freebasic .exe files?)

just a thought, not tested, perhaps with the -g switch?
it would seem counterproductive to strip an exe with debug information.
[edit]
confirmed, with the -g switch the strip command is omitted.

saw this at the Purebasic forum, the ghidra reverse engineering tool is free https://ghidra-sre.org I tested this simple FB program, compiling with -gen gcc print "hello world" the decompiled C code undefined8 entry(undefined8 uParm1,undefined8 uParm2) { undefined8 uVar1; _fb_Init(uParm1,u...