I am trying to install fbc 10.1 on debian 12.5 (not arm). It installs but doesn't run as the dependencies are not met. I have tried to put symbolic links to the current versions and that sort of works, but then the contents of the files in the link seem to find other dependencies that are not met. I...

I am running fedora 38 and cannot get fltk 1.3.3 to communicate with freebasic 1.10. I have followed the old (2009?) set of directions but they don't seem to correctly install fltk. I could use help here, to get it installed. Even better would be a freebasic version that came with fltk installed if ...

Interestingly I found that telling it to start from a terminal did not work correctly. It started correctly but the terminal closed when I run an external program (and the external program was not executed) (comand is just a string variable and not command which is a protected word) comand=str(minut...

Thank you for your reply. You know sometimes I just miss the boat. I knew about this one,
. Or create a .desktop shortcut and check the option "start in terminal."

but just didn't see it. Thank you for your reply...

I have written a program which displays its information in the gnome-terminal program. The program runs ok when it is run from the ide (geany). Apparently geany is loading the terminal. The compiled version runs also, but it doesn't open the terminal so I cannot input data. I know that it is running...

Thank you all for your replies. You have given me several ideas I need to go back and try.
John

One of the problems I have with my FB programs is that they are not portable to other linux machines. This is mostly a shared library thing as the other users have to install the same libraries I have installed. I have tried to use static libraries, but the problem there is that many static librarie...

I took care of geany, no problem. I was just curious about why one installation was one place, and the other went elsewhere. Seems like that stuff ought to be standardized. Thanks,
John

I am curious. I installed fbc on Rpi and it goes to /usr. On my fedora installation on a regular computer it installs into /usr/local/ why the difference? It confuses geany when it is looking for the fbc compiler.
John

I got both methods working. For my particular use right now, wget worked just fine, but I am pleased to know about both methods.

Thanks for your help,
John

Today I am trying to locate a simple program in fb in linux to download files from the internet. I searched the linux section here but found nothing. Anybody have something like this they would share?

Thanks,
John

I did find the answer for this but it looks like I didn't post it. Somebody suggested replacing the fbc file in the linux installation (apparently compiled under Ubuntu) with one compiled under your flavor of linux. I did compile fbc from source and copied it over the given fbc file and the errors d...

Thank you for your responses. I am under linux, and last night I did find a solution. The program I am running is designed to use an arduino with sensors and a terminal program to take data on the moon. I needed the program to wait some time, then run coolterm, collect data for some time, and then s...

I am interested in using FB to start an external program, let it run for 100 seconds and then stopping it. I have found the run command, but it stops fb and waits for the program to stop itself. Is there any way to issue a command to kill the external program after a certain amount of running time? ...

When I started using window9 I noticed that the center window command put the window halfway on one monitor and half on my other monitor. It centers properly on a single monitor system. With help from the window9 authors they wrote this routine to pull the info from my system so that I could write a...