this is the new FB release, version 1.04. It's the result of the last 3 months of development - 4 people who contributed to the FB sources, plus 1 contributor to the documentation.
The biggest news:
- FB how has a Boolean type and True/False constants
- Dim Byref for declaring local references
- Many binding updates - nearly all support 64bit now
- and over 60 bug fixes - changelog.txt
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-win32.exe (installer) | .zip archive | .7z archive - 32bit version
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-win64.zip | .7z archive - 64bit version
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-2-win32-mingworg.zip | .7z archive - alternative to the normal FB-win32 package, may work better for older Win32 systems
- gcc-5.2.0-for-FB-win32-gengcc.zip - 32bit gcc for the FB-win32 package, in case you want to use -gen gcc.
- fbc-1.04.0-win32.zip | .7z archive - to be extracted into existing 32bit MinGW-w64 toolchain
- fbc-1.04.0-win64.zip | .7z archive - to be extracted into existing 64bit MinGW-w64 toolchain
i686-5.2.0-release-win32-sjlj-rt_v4-rev0.7z
x86_64-5.2.0-release-win32-sjlj-rt_v4-rev0.7z
Linux Binaries
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-linux-x86.tar.gz | .tar.xz archive - 32bit x86 version
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | .tar.xz archive - 64bit x86_64 version
- Run sudo ./install.sh -i to install into /usr/local, if wanted.
- FreeBASIC-1.04.0-dos.zip
- fbc-1.04.0-dos.zip - to be extracted into existing DJGPP toolchain
- FB-manual-1.04.0-chm.zip
- FB-manual-1.04.0-html.zip - Offline HTML pages (start at 00index.html)
- FB-manual-1.04.0-fbhelp.zip - For the fbhelp program (QB-like help viewer)
- FB-manual-1.04.0-txt.zip - As one .txt file, for printing to paper
- .tar.gz | .tar.xz | .zip | .7z
You can always find the latest FB source code in the fbc Git repository: