Converting to JS/Web Format

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webfreak7
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Converting to JS/Web Format

Post by webfreak7 »

I have been tasked with converting a 3000 or so line graphing program from freebasic to something that can work in the web browser (preferably using javascript). I'm definitely well versed in JavaScript; however, the FreeBasic program is becoming tedious to convert by hand. It seems that all or nearly all of the FB logic has an equivalent in javascript (minus some graphing function), so I feel it should be simple to convert to JS, but I'm unsure how. Does anyone know of existing projects that can do this?
angros47
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Re: Converting to JS/Web Format

Post by angros47 »

Yes, Emscripten is what you are looking for. FreeBasic can use it to compile directly to a web page (you would need the FreeBasic source to compile the runtime library with Emscripten before starting)
webfreak7
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Re: Converting to JS/Web Format

Post by webfreak7 »

Do you happen to know the specific instructions for how that'd work? I couldn't find anything in the wiki.
angros47
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Re: Converting to JS/Web Format

Post by angros47 »

It is explained here:
https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24021
and here:
viewtopic.php?t=26956

Basically, you have to install and configure Emscripten, as explained here: https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_sta ... loads.html
then download the source of FreeBasic, and build the runtime libraries and the graphic library with TARGET=asmjs-unknown-emscripten
Then you can compile using "fbc -target js-asmjs file.bas"

If your program has a main loop, you might need to use the option -Wl "-s ASYNCIFY=1"
dodicat
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Re: Converting to JS/Web Format

Post by dodicat »

You can run .js files directly from freebasic.

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function java(message as string) as string
dim as string s
s+="WSH.Echo('"+message+"');"
s+="var console = {"+chr(10)
s+="    info: function (s){"+chr(10)
s+="        WSH.Echo(s);"+chr(10)
s+="    }"+chr(10)
s+="}"+chr(10)
s+="var document = {"+chr(10)
s+="    write : function (s){"+chr(10)
s+="        WSH.Echo(s);"+chr(10)
s+="    }"+chr(10)
s+="}"+chr(10)
s+="var alert = function (s){"+chr(10)
s+="    WSH.Echo(s);"+chr(10)
s+="}"+chr(10)
s+="console.info(""test"");"+chr(10)
s+="document.write(""test2"");"+chr(10)
s+="alert(""test3, Press any key to end . . ."");"+chr(10)
return s
end function


function savefile(filename As String,p As String) as string
    Dim As long n=freefile
    If Open (filename For Binary Access Write As #n)=0 Then
        Put #n,,p
        Close
    Else
        Print "Unable to save " + filename:sleep:end
    End If
    return filename
End function

Sub runscript(filename As String) 
  Shell "cscript.exe /Nologo "+ filename 
End Sub


savefile("script.js",java("Testing .js script files"))
runscript("script.js")
kill "script.js"
sleep
 
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