GBC3(1)

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✨ GBC3(1) — the manual, but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading the GBC3(1) manual together and honestly? it's giving compiler core energy 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

gbc3 — the GAMBAS Compiler. that's it, that's the name, she's simple, she's iconic 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gbc3 [options] [<project directory>]

like, options, and optionally a project directory. she's flexible fr fr.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, Gambas is a free development environment built on a Basic interpreter that has object extensions — think a lil mashup of Java(tm) and Visual Basic(tm), and yes the way that works is lowkey genius.

with Gambas you can, and I'm quoting the whole vibe here because it's a lot:

  • quickly design your program GUI with Qt or GTK+
  • access database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQlite or ODBC databases
  • pilot applications with DBus
  • translate your program into many languages
  • create GStreamer, OpenGL or SDL applications
  • and so on... like, the list keeps going, she's versatile 💖

and gbc3? she's the compiler. her whole job is taking Gambas projects and compiling them into architecture-independent bytecode. no cap. 🧚

✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, we do not skip, we do not summarise, we are thorough in this house 🫶

  • -a, --all — compile all
  • -b, --bytecode-version — force a specific bytecode version
  • -d, --output-desc — output class description files for the IDE
  • -e, --translate-errors — display translatable error messages
  • -F, --form <form file> — convert a form file into code and print it
  • -g, --debug — add debugging information
  • -h, --help — display help and exit
  • -j, --jobs <count> — number of background jobs (default: <number of CPU cores>)
  • -L, --license — display license
  • -n, --default-namespace <namespace> — default namespace for exported classes
  • -p, --two-pass — two-pass compilation to detect more errors
  • -q --quiet — do not print anything if compilation succeeds
  • -r, --root <directory> — gives the gambas installation directory
  • -s, --swap — swap endianness
  • -t, --translate — output translation files
  • -v, --verbose — verbose output
  • -V, --version — display version
  • -w, --warnings — display warnings
  • -x, --exec — define the 'Exec' preprocessor constant

🔥 COMPILER FLAGS 🔥

these ones are the -f girlies, each one a whole personality:

  • -f check-prefix — check the prefix of variables if warnings are enable
  • -f public-module — module symbols are public by default
  • -f public-control — form controls are public

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the Gambas website is at: https://gambaswiki.org/website/

the Gambas source code is available at: https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/

the documentation about the language is at: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? report bugs to http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker — do it, she deserves to be fixed 💀

Copyright© Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@gambas-basic.org>;

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

okay that's the whole page, you read it all, I'm so proud of you ⭐ and just so you know — this one's dated August 2024, from the GBC3(1) manual herself. go compile something gorgeous, bestie 🎀💖

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