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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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fedora 35 wont run freebasic. #349

Closed Plutonium5793 closed 2 years ago

Plutonium5793 commented 2 years ago

Ever since I have tried to use freebasic, its use has been problematic. In fedora there has not been support for -lwebkitgtk-1.0. It appears that fedora supports webkitgtk-4.0, but that doesn't satify fbc.
I have installed all the libraries the readme.txt says to install for fedora, but it won't compile fbc programs and says it cannot find lwebkitgtk-1.0. A few versions ago (both fedora and fbc) I could load an old rpm to limp along, but that no longer works. Is there any possibility of fixing this dependency problem?

Plutonium5793 commented 2 years ago

I tried the precompiled version and then compiled it myself. When I use the resulting fbc with geany on programs that have previously compiled successfully I get ld: cannot find -lwebkitgtk-1.0 compilation failed.
When I search for "webkitgtk" I find that /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0 is installed. Under that directory is webkit2. I know that several fedora versions ago I had the problem, but was able to find an rpm of webkitgtk-1.0 on fedora twenty something (like fedora 28 or so) that I was able to install. Apparently updating fedora removed the obsolete version.

rversteegen commented 2 years ago

It sounds like you have geany set up to pass -l webkitgtk-1.0 to fbc? How are you invoking fbc from geany, and what's the commandline? You can also pass -v to fbc to see the commandline options it passes to ld. As said, fbc does not depend on webkit.

Plutonium5793 commented 2 years ago

Ok. I think I found my problem. I use window9 and it is coughing up that error. I need to see what can be done. Thanks, John