Previously dkl prepared the build information and related things right after the release for the next one. See e.g.: https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/commit/cf5119532ed35edf77cfc7f6da1570aeeeae58e3 counting_pine (or other FB devs) didn't do that after the 1.06 release, that's why it still shows 1.06...

There's also a library-version of curl, libcurl, which provides an API that you can use directly in your application instead of running external applications. Dealing with SSL yourself can get quite complicated, so I strongly advice to use some library that handles this for you (like the one I menti...

Status update: The automatic package upload was broken, thus no new builds were uploaded recently. I fixed the problem today, so the latest builds should be uploaded this night. Additionally the FreeBSD 32-bit build is broken currently and also the 64-bit tests on Windows, will have a look at these ...

Mixing different versions of GCC and/or its runtime libraries may always cause troubles, but after short googling it looks like specific versions of MSYS2 also had a problem that could cause that error (for example this bug report describes that the error was fixed by updating MSYS2: https://github....

A desktop environment that by default stretches a fullscreen OpenGL game out of the screen, now that's what I call bad design. There's no good solution from a OS's perspective in that case: not scaling makes the application unusable because of unreadable tiny texts and controls and scaling may also...

@Tourist Trap: The recommended way (according to Microsoft) to make your application dpi-aware (or explicitly dpi-unaware, which is the default when you specify nothing) is to add an entry to your application manifest. That's a better method than calling the API methods you mentioned. It should not ...

If you want to really implement something yourself, have a look at the Winsock documentation (which works quite similar to Unix sockets). You'll also find an example there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/winsock/complete-server-code If you want to have a little bit less work take a...

why not harmonize freebasic 32 and 64 so that it generates only C code with the default compilation enabled with the option -O2. it would be more logical. and it will optimize the c-generated code in both versions. You can use the gcc backend also for 32-bit freebasic by passing "-gen gcc"...

Yes; Linux does not provide separate APIs for Unicode, like Windows does for UTF-16, but supports UTF-8 in existing APIs instead.

I know all that . by default freebasic 32 generates asm code while the 64-bit version generates only C code . which explains that 32 bit programs are much faster than 64 bit ... I hope it is more precise. Maybe more precise, but your conclusion is still wrong. In general asm code is not faster than...

- there is no installer There is an installer for win32 (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/files/Binaries%20-%20Windows/). Some years I ago I modified the install script to create a combined win32/win64 installer, but I'm not sure whether that's needed. Personally I always download the zip a...

how did you fix it / work around it?

btw it would be nice if you could document the build process on macos like for the other OSes in our wiki. Macos is probably not ready for tge wiki yet, but when it'll be integrated in fbc's master it'd be nice to already have some docs for the wiki.

If there still were any win98 users out there that would care, then probably, but I doubt there are any. So no, there hasn't been any effort put in porting FB to win98, neither by the compiler developers nor by external contributors. Afaik the currently used toolchain to compile FB for windows doesn...

fbc_tests.string.format.numberFormatTest is the only test known to fail on win x64, on other platforms all tests succeed. You can find test results (including console output) for windows & linux, x86 & x64 on my CI server's (=Jenkins) website, see https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=...

If you're not using any version control system (VCS) for your coding activities yet, there are lots of good reasons to start doing so (but I won't elaborate on that). I just wanted you to notify that a great service for Git hosting, GitHub, just got better: GitHub offers free private repositories no...