Careless packaging of FreeBASIC-1.08.1-win32-mingworg.7z

[miilvyxg]

FreeBASIC-1.08.1-win32-mingworg\bin\win32 doesn't shipped with all of the needed dlls.

Trying to compile any programs under examples will result in an error message like this:

as.exe - System Error

The program can't start because libiconv-2.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstall the program to fix this problem.

[Imortis]

Many examples use External libraries, which are managed by teams other than the FreeBASIC team. To include all those DLL's (and SO's on Linux) would use a tremendous amount of space and bandwidth. If you search for the missing DLL on your search engine of choice, it is usually simple enough to find them for download.

libiconv-2.dll can be found here: https://www.dll-files.com/libiconv-2.dll.html

[srvaldez]

hello miilvyxg
you just got lucky in choosing the one distribution with a missing dll :-)
I can confirm that this particular package FreeBASIC-1.08.1-win32-mingworg.7z is missing the libiconv-2.dll
but you can get it by downloading winlibs-mingw-w64-i686-9.3.0-7.0.0-r3-sjlj.7z
once you locate the dll copy it to the FreeBASIC-1.08.1-win32-mingworg\bin\win32 folder

[caseih]

Many examples use External libraries, which are managed by teams other than the FreeBASIC team. To include all those DLL's (and SO's on Linux) would use a tremendous amount of space and bandwidth.

While that is true, the original problem is that the GNU binaries shipped with that particular FB package, and which are depended on by the compiler itself, will not run because of that missing dll. This is indeed a packaging issue. That dll should be in the zip file.

[Imortis]

My mistake.

[coderJeff]

The mingworg build of freebasic is built with tools from MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows

Appears that this file has been missing from the packages since fbc 1.05.0 releases and up.

The libiconv-2.dll is part of libiconv-1.14-3-mingw32-dll.tar.lzma

I will update the release script to add the dll.

Thanks.

[caseih]

Thank you!

[j8w344c6]

Appears that this file has been missing from the packages since fbc 1.05.0 releases and up.

It means almost to no one really use this package. If there is any they must be already discovered this.

[Imortis]

More than likely, it means most people using it already had an older version of the compiler installed before using this one.

[miilvyxg]

More than likely, it means most people using it already had an older version of the compiler installed before using this one.

Your project is hosted on sourceforge. sourceforge does count how many times a file being downloaded. Just check it yourself and have your own conclusion.