hello deltarho[1859] :) I edited my opening post and included a link for the binaries, I also included the random functions the following works with clang but not with gcc unless you use gcc-9.3.0 from winlibs extern "C" declare function __builtin_ia32_rdrand16_step (byref as ushort) as ul...

calling the gcc __builtin functions from FB don't necessarily work with all toolchains, one solution is to make a wrapper lib of your favorite __builtin functions checking for cpu features can be handy so that one doesn't have to resort to inline asm to compile with gcc do gcc -c -O2 built_in.c then...

hello Roland Chastain
this looks promising, but the cairo version that's included in their build is version 1.16.0, it remains to be seen if it will build the latest version

hello UEZ I tried building the dll but the source is only a build script, the script downloads the source for cairo, pixman, png and zlib the problem is that the Visual Studio project files are not included, it tries to download the project files from dev.com which seems to be extinct I tried to con...

hello deltarho[1859] :) the link to the binaries https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/tag/llvmorg-18.1.3 surprised me, the 64-bit clang.exe depends only on installed Windows dlls, it's size is 114 MB but it's pretty much standalone :D here's the list of dll dependencies for clang.exe 64-bit...

hello coderJeff :) "Is the logic on line str_format.c:335 related to that?" I don't know, to me the format function is a mystery and counter intuitive, a function to be avoided I didn't know that the FB format function was modeled after vbdos, I just tried to rewrite the format helper in v...

about 5 years ago I made a bug report about the format function returning a zero with an exponent, sometime after, one of the FB developers contacted me about it, he wanted me to confirm that a certain format was correct but I am not a format expert, so I wrote a small VB6 program that would take a ...

now I wish that I had the witty humor of Pete from the QB64 forum
deltarho[1859], I wondered what the tee was about but never curious enough to find out

hello Makoto WATANABE
you are missing the cairo library, you can find an all-in-one cairo dll here https://github.com/preshing/cairo-windows/releases
just place the dll in the same location where your program resides

@coderJeff I tried hhr suggestion and it seems that he is right, however, I don't know if there are cases where the suggested change would cause a problem. the format function is a complex beast and it seems that it's not finished, I know that it fails the tests with gcc-13.2 and up I have now built...

jaskin wrote: ↑Mar 21, 2024 18:59 I rather go to the source and use Win32 API calls directly.

then perhaps the examples in Charles Petzold book "Programming Windows" will be of interest https://archive.org/details/programming ... mpanion-cd

hello jaskin
UEZ posted a Winn 11 console here viewtopic.php?p=301467#p301467
it might be of interest to you, also see Simple WinAPI GUI
dodicat, very nice demo

hi deltarho[1859]
interesting results, I take it that you were able to compile Encrypternet with clang?

dodicat, the reason for your test puzzles me, surely you know that the variable k will be out of scope after calling test, but FB doesn't warn or complain however gcc-13.2 and up give this warning warning: storing the address of local variable 'K$1' in '*S$1' [-Wdangling-pointer=]

I concur with Lost Zergling
thank you coderJeff and fxm