http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Compiling_for_Android Anyone seen this? Hello! OHRRPGCE co-developer here. TeeEmCee already commented earlier in this thread, but I just wanted to say that yes, he did succeed, and those instructions do work. We only use SDL for display and input so don't kno...

Beautiful! Why did the reflections fail? Performance?

I think that the Curses library might be a way to accomplish this:

ExtLibcurses

HACK3R ADI wrote:there is also one more condition that you will not use FB_Windows/FB_LINUX,etc... to get os name

This is the reason you are not getting an asnwer to your question. You are asking for platform-specific information, then you need to use platform-specific code.

Does it produce error codes if you try to Get/Put with the file handle, or does it just "succeed"? The underlying fread/fwrite calls will fail, so surely the FB functions forward the errors. Actually, GET on a directory's file handles reads zeroes, and GET as a function returns 0, so the ...

I just did some more testing. The fole hande cannot be written to or read from. (if you tried to read you just get zeroes) I am having trouble figuring out why the c library on unix allows this at all. At first I though maybe it was just to get the os file descriptor for a later call to stat(), but ...

It just seems to me like OPEN should be consistent. If it was up to me (and I under stant it ISN'T up to me) I would make OPEN behave the same way on all platforms, and then make a separate command like RAWOPEN or UNIXOPEN or something like that. Then the normal use case would be consistent, and the...

Oh! Thanks! I forgot the FREEFILE when I simplified the example code for pasting here. I should have just copied and pasted. I edited the first post to correct it.

I am just trying to report a bug here, I don't know why this is being interpreted as a debate about Linux filesystems ;)

That doesn't apply to this situation. Directory behavior should be consistent between Windows and Linux. A directory is not a file (not even in unix) so you shouldn't be able to open it like a file.

I just noticed something that seems to be a bug in FreeBasic 0.23 DIM fh as integer = FREEFILE DIM filename as string filename = "folder_name" IF OPEN(filename FOR BINARY AS #fh) THEN PRINT filename & " cannot be opened" ELSE PRINT filename & " was opened okay, and i...

Thanks! make FBC='fbc -p /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -p /lib/i386-linux-gnu' worked perfectly.

Could there be a compiling.txt file in the git repository? Or maybe a compiling section in the readme.txt?

I am trying to compile the latest fbc from git on my Ubuntu Linux 12.04 laptop. when I typed make, the compile phase went fine, but then it fails when trying to link, and says: LINK new/bin/fbc /usr/share/freebasic/bin/linux/ld: cannot find -lc /usr/share/freebasic/bin/linux/ld: cannot find -lm /usr...

Ah! That makes sense!

I like the idea of a separate internal Close_all()

So if you did that, CLOSE 0 could be an error normally, and a non-op with -lang qb ?

I recently ran into something that seems like a bug. I was closing a filehandle that had never been opened. I had been doing this for years, and it never caused a problem, until I added another file that remains opened at the same time. Here is a simple example that demonstrates the problem DIM f1 A...

Heh. Either that last post pushed me over the post-threshold, or I was just too blind to find the link before :) I have posted the note to the wiki. Here is my workaround code. I don't know whether or not this sort of thing is appropriate for the documentation, so I'll leave it out for now. FUNCTION...