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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: VAX Basic-like Basic for PC?
- Message-ID: <oNmguB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:17:23 CST
- References: <1992Nov18.225023.28418@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Reply-To: tcscs!zeta@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
- Lines: 33
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- hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
-
- > In article 722111275@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu, cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer I
- > >roth@csoadm.enet.dec.com (Lee Roth) writes:
- > >>Any suggestions as to which PC Basic would fill the following requirements?
- > >>
- > >>1) Compiler to produce standalone runnable programs (no interpreter baggage
- > >
- > >What is "interpreter baggage"? That aside, there are a variety of
- > >BASIC compilers for the PC that will produce standalone executables.
- > >The only ones I'm aware of that *don't* do this are the interpreters
- > >that come bundled with DOS (BASICA, GWBASIC, QBASIC).
- >
- > Uh, unless I'm mistaken, Visual Basic, The Realizer, and even GFA Basic do no
- > (at least, not currently) provide support for compilation of source code into
- > standalone EXE files. I'm sure what Lee was referring to is the run-time
- > library that has to accompany "compiled" BASIC programs such as these Windows
- > versions. I'm not sure if Visual Basic for DOS has a "true" compiler or not.
- >
- > Of the Windows Basics, only GFA has promised a true compiler RSN. :)
- > Hopefully one will be made available for VB 2.0 but the MS folks I spoke with
- > said no comment. Maybe that's a good sign? :)
-
- Qbasic has an option to compile stand alone or to require the run time
- library to be present.
-
- Greg
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