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FreeBASIC is a completely free, open-source, multi-platform BASIC compiler, with syntax similar to MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, object orientation, unsigned data types, inline assembly, and many others.
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Makefile in Linux ends up in error #18

Closed eridal closed 9 years ago

eridal commented 9 years ago

Hey all,

I'm trying to install the freebasic environment, but the official makefile ends up with errors -- it assumes I already have the fbc installed, which I think is bootstrapped

Also the official guide points to download from sourceforge, which I don't trust as it bundles spyware ..

I'd love to download and build from sources, no binaries at all.

dkl commented 9 years ago

Hello,

the FreeBASIC compiler is self-hosting (written in FreeBASIC itself), so when building from sources it needs a working fbc.

The project's main download site is indeed at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/files/

The downloads are also made available by various other people, e.g. at: http://www.freebasic-portal.de/downloads/aktuelle-compiler/

eridal commented 9 years ago

Too bad the only official downloads are binaries over a non-secure connection (http), I really wanted to install freebasic, but given the security concerns the current state raises, I cannot do so in a safe way.

Also, please consider moving the downloads to github, as sourceforge injects adware on the installers.

Anyways, thanks for your reply!

dkl commented 9 years ago

Perhaps the latest addition of precompiled compiler sources (in the latest commit) will be useful for you too; doing make bootstrap should produce an fbc binary without needing one.

I'm not sure about offering downloads elsewhere. If it's not too much work, then (at least some) of the prebuilt binary packages can surely be uploaded on Github too though.

The fbc project on Sourceforge did not opt-in to Sourceforge's adware installer, so at least from that point of view the downloads from there should always be the proper ones.

Edit: scratch the make bootstrap part for now, we should probably do that differently. However, I've uploaded the FB 1.01.0 binaries to the 1.01.0 release here now.

freebasic commented 9 years ago

Aren't there hashes of the binaries? Just post it here on (Secure) github, then you can verify it when you download :)

On 04/03/2015 01:15 PM, dkl wrote:

Perhaps the latest addition of precompiled compiler sources (bbeeb5b https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/commit/bbeeb5ba3ebd565e336e42d4784317f98e3162dc) will be useful for you too; doing |make bootstrap| should produce an fbc binary without needing one.

I'm not sure about offering downloads elsewhere. If it's not too much work, then (at least some) of the prebuilt binary packages can surely be uploaded on Github too though.

The fbc project on Sourceforge did not opt-in to Sourceforge's adware installer, so at least from that point of view the downloads from there should always be the proper ones.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/freebasic/fbc/issues/18#issuecomment-89379151.

dkl commented 9 years ago

Allright, I've uploaded sha1sums.txt.gz for the 1.01.0 and 1.02.0 releases here, and linked to the download site at SourceForge. That should do it.

Furthermore, we have a FreeBASIC-1.02.0-source-bootstrap.tar.xz download now afterall, which allows bootstrapping an fbc via make bootstrap.

eridal commented 9 years ago

thanks sooo much!