Information for hacking on FreeBASIC


This area of the Wiki is for documenting everything about the compiler and the runtime libraries. It is, however, incomplete. If you find that information provided here does not match what the source is doing then please update the relevant pages here. New pages and articles may be added freely, provided they help understanding what's going on inside FB.

Developing FreeBASIC Itself

Compiling a Development Version of FreeBASIC
Getting the source code
Compiling FB for DOS
Compiling FB on Linux
Compiling FB on Windows
Compiling FB with Emscripten
Getting source code updates and recompiling FB
Debugging FB
FB build configuration options
Known problems when compiling FB
GCC toolchain choice

Running the FreeBASIC test suite
Normal vs. Standalone
Glossary
Notes on the creation of FB releases
FB and cross-compiling
Bootstrapping/cross-compiling fbc

Creating FB bindings for C libraries
C Header Translation Tutorial
Header Style Guidelines
External Libraries Index (header status)

Compiler internals

Quick overview of all modules
The objinfo feature
Memory management
Lexer & preprocessor

Parser & compiler (fb, parser, symb, rtl)
Purpose
Top level parsing process
Symbols
Representation of data types

Arrays
SELECT CASE
Profiling with fb's profiler
Profiling for gmon/gprof
Structure packing/field alignment

Run-time (rtlib) and Graphics (gfxlib2) Libraries

Keyboard input: inkey(), multikey(), etc.
Overview of drivers (backends)
Pixel formats

 


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