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{{implementation|BASIC}}'''FreeBASIC''' is a free/[[open source]] ([[GPL]]), 32-bit [[BASIC]] compiler for [[Microsoft]] [[Windows]], protected-mode [[DOS]] (via a [[wp:DOS extender|DOS extender]]), [[Linux]], [[BSD|FreeBSD]], and the [[wp:Xbox|Xbox]].
It makes use of the [[wp:GNU Binutils|GNU Binutils]] programming tools as backends, and can produce console, [[QuickBASIC]]-compatible graphical and [[GUI]] executables, along with dynamic and static libraries. A [[GCC]] frontend is under development, which will enable compilation for many more operating systems than currently supported.
Currently, software libraries like [[GTK+]], [[wp:GNU Scientific Library|GSL]], [[:Category:SDL|SDL]], [[wp:Allegro library|Allegro]], [[Lua]] and [[OpenGL]] can be used directly (no wrappers, only function and structure prototypes), and more are being added on every new release. A complete set of the Windows [[API]] headers is also included.
The compiler, and its nearly 90,000 lines of code, was, and still is, compiled by itself (in other words, FreeBASIC is a [[wp:Self-hosting|self-hosting compiler]]). The first version of FreeBASIC was written in [[:Category:Visual Basic|Visual Basic]] for DOS for that purpose.
==Category FreeBASIC==
▲* [http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Freebasic Category:Freebasic] Notice
==See also==
* [[wp:FreeBASIC|FreeBASIC]] on Wikipedia
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