With Gdb 15.0.90 weekly from https://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/ and the environment I use to build FB with, I built it like this: In the top level directory (the one with the bfd and gnulib folders) configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --disable-sim --disable-shared --enable-static --di...

That doesn't make sense because this entire line just isn't true (any more)

Using -fpmode PRECISE is dependent on the -fpu SSE command line option. Using -fpmode PRECISE without using -fpu SSE will generate an error.

Try it. No problems.

It's in my modern Win32 headers and libs from the metadata Microsoft publish (https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32786). They're architected differently to the SDK headers, so this stuff is in ui.hidpi.bi rather than winuser.bi or whatever it's normally in. The metadata is laid out in 3...

dwSize A COORD structure that specifies the new size of the console screen buffer, in character rows and columns. The specified width and height cannot be less than the width and height of the console screen buffer's window . The specified dimensions also cannot be less than the minimum size allowe...

Dragging things off-topic as is my raison d'etre here. Dim As HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, False, iPID) I changed this to PROCESS_VM_READ Or PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION in order to get this to work with elevated processes too, as the access control for those says that non-...

PRIVATE FUNCTION DWSTRING.Add (BYREF ansiStr AS STRING, BYVAL nCodePage AS UINT = 0) AS BOOLEAN DWSTRING_DP("DWSTRING Add - STRING") IF .LEN(ansiStr) = 0 THEN RETURN FALSE ' // Create the wide string from the incoming ansi string DIM dwLen AS UINT, pbuffer AS ANY PTR IF nCodePage = CP_UTF...

I have built it on Linux but that was ages ago so I've forgotten but on Windows, if you want your built compiler to behave like the premade ones in terms of includes, you have to build the compiler with ENABLE_STANDALONE=1 on the make line or in config.mk make ENABLE_STANDALONE=1 FBC=/usr/local/bin/...

Why does it happen? Someone misread or misunderstood the man page for pthread_attr_setstacksize. That's been on the wiki page since the dawn of time so who knows what the man page said then, but now it says: A thread's stack size is fixed at the time of thread creation. Only the main thread can dyn...

'main' module doesn't mean 'best, most important, first' module, it literally means the module where the compiler puts the startup code (ie the function called main). All global code runs before the startup code starts and any in the 'main' module gets put into the startup code. Which if anything, g...

It's kind of sad in a way. If you read the posts from about the time, all the noise was about 'we need to cement Bob's legacy', 'we need to do him proud' etc, and in the end his legacy got spaffed up the wall before his coffin could even get dirty. Watch for new products to be announced. Bob created...

sorry, but what can we met in BCX only, but not in freebasic? If one is being particularly churlish: dim s as sting for i = 1 to 10 s += "Hello there" next pause It's pretty much a tool that's one level up from 'dumb' translator. Any typos like that are left to the C compiler to sort out,...

Need more features in FreeBASIC?: Then get off your fat arse and ask for them. idk man. There hasn't been any updates, even to Jeff's 'private work' repo for 7 months now. Don't get me wrong, I don't in any way begrude the guy any sort of break from volunteering in a role it sounds like he didn't p...

I drove my Toyota in France once. It was MR2.

I know it's old but you don't get many sorta-multilingual puns

Good job. I like those problems where it gets into your brain and you have to do it or you can't stop until you have I once reverse engineered The Three Stooges: Brides is Brides arcade game because I saw someone play it on twitch and he said 'Oh yeah, it has this weird bug where instead of giving y...

Would it be similarly mysterious if it was instead Function ArraySize() As Long Return 1023 End Function Static As Long array(ArraySize()) (I don't know if this works, it's just for illustration) Same deal, just that Type<> is a built-in language thing rather than a function you write yourself.