I seek a Basic Compiler for 9X & NT

[Rainyday]

Does anyone know of a good free compiler for the basic programing language of witch would allow the use of ole OCX controls in forms and also produce executable exe files for

Windows 95/NT4/98/ME/2000/XP

it needs to compile Graphical user interface Windows applications

I Need it to be possible to simply place The Executable in a directory and run it

i don't mind if it only requires a few Dynamic Link Libraries as long as they work in Windows 95/NT4/98/ME/2000/XP

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[Guest wsxedcrfv]

Does anyone know of a good free compiler for the basic programing language

I suggest you ask your question in one or more of the following usenet newsgroups:

alt.comp.lang.visualbasic

alt.lang.basic

alt.lang.basic.compiler

alt.lang.powerbasic

comp.lang.powerbasic

comp.lang.basic.compiler

comp.lang.basic.realbasic

comp.lang.visualbasic

microsoft.public.basic.dos

Some of those groups will be more appropriate (or useful, or active) than others.

[oerg866]

I suggest Visual Basic 6.0. It's fast and works on all the afformentioned OSs.

Cheers,

Oerg

[jaclaz]

I suggest Visual Basic 6.0. It's fast and works on all the afformentioned OSs.

Is it free?

Is it still available?

The "current" should be Visual Basic 2010 Express

http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/

The 2005 version is still available, seemingly:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/express/aa975050.aspx

As well as the 2008:

http://www.brothersoft.com/visual-basic-2008-express-edition-67707.html

A couple lists:

http://www.freebyte.com/programming/basic/

http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/basic.shtml

For limited needs these look like right:

http://www.justbasic.com/

http://www.kbasic.com/

(freeware versions of Commercial apps)

Otherwise:

http://www.freebasic.net/

jaclaz

[Rainyday]

are there a 3rd party versions of . NET Dlls such as MSCOREE.DLL of which can simply be placed in the same folder as the executable file that requires them

and may be run on Windows 95/NT4/98/ME/2000/XP without Internet Explorer

[dencorso]

No.

[Rainyday]

Can i use Ocx in free basic GUI applications

without useing Internet Explorer

[Tripredacus]

What's wrong with QBasic? It comes with DOS 5 at least.

[osRe]

What's wrong with QBasic? It comes with DOS 5 at least.

Its OLE support is horrendous.

[Multibooter]

I suggest Visual Basic 6.0. It's fast and works on all the afformentioned OSs.

Question about updating Visual Basic 6:

After installing under Win98SE Visual Basic 6.0 or Visual Studio 6.0 should I run VS Service Pack 5 vs6sp5.exe (7-Feb-2001, 130 MB) and then the Unofficial Visual Studio 6 SP6 (Win9x) by mdgx (1.9 MB http://www.mdgx.com/files/VS6SP6U.EXE ), or should I skip running vs6sp5.exe and just run mdgx's VS6SP6U.EXE?

mdgx indicates in his info file http://www.mdgx.com/files/VS6SP6U.TXT "This fix/update is cumulative. This means it includes ALL BUG fixes from all previous official + unofficial patches/(hot)fixes/updates." Because of the difference in file size it doesn't seem to be right that mdgx's SP6 update file (1.9 MB) obviates the stuff in SP5 (130 MB).

I assume that SP6 from MS (Vs6sp6.exe or Vs6sp6B.exe) is not for Win98.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Multibooter