GBW3(1)

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✨ GBW3(1) — like, the manual page for gbs3 ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the glow-up of the <pink>gbs3</pink> page 💖 (the man page header literally just says GBW3(1) and we're not fighting it, we're just vibing with it).

🌸 NAME 🌸

gbs3 — the GAMBAS Scripter 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gbs3 [options] [--] [<script file> | -]
gbs3 --convert-project <source project directory> <destination script directory>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Gambas is a free development environment built on a Basic interpreter with object extensions — think of it as a little mix of Java(tm) and Visual Basic(tm), fr fr. With Gambas you can:

  • 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, and so on, it's giving versatile 💅

gbs3 is the interpreter that lets you compile and execute a Gambas script. It may also be used to convert a gambas project to a script.

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -b, --buildonly — process and compile the script but do not execute it, no cap 🙈
  • -c, --nocache — force the script compilation, like, do not check the cache 🔥
  • -e — execute the source code provided by the command line (separator is ':') 💫
  • -f, --fast — use just-in-time compiler TP; -g, --debug adds debugging information to application 🐛
  • -h, --help — display help and exit, iconic behavior 🫶
  • -l, --list — display a list of available Components or Libraries: '-l component' or '-l library' 📋
  • -L, --license — display license 📜
  • -S --strict — fail if 'Public' or 'Sub' are defined without a 'main' function; otherwise create main() 😤
  • -t, --trace — turn on tracing option during execution 🔍
  • -T, --terse — only print a very terse error report on compile errors 🤐
  • -u, --use — load component or libraries ('comp1,comp2,lib1...') 🧩
  • -v, --verbose — be verbose, she's chatty 💬
  • -V, --version — display version 🏷️
  • -w, --warnings — display warnings during compilation ⚠️
  • --convert-project — convert a simple project to a script 🔄

🌈 PROJECT CONVERSION 🌈

gbs3 can convert a gambas project to an executable script file using the --convert-project option, periodt ✨

The input project directory is used to create the script, and that script gets written to the output script directory 📁➡️📁

The script is created and named the same as the originating project 🎀

gbs3 MyProjectDirectory DestinationScriptDirectory

💅 EXAMPLE 💅

#!/usr/bin/env gbs3
for i as integer = 0 to 10
  print i;;
next

ate, no crumbs 🍓

🌸 AVAILABILITY 🌸

The latest version of Gambas can always be obtained from gambas.sourceforge.net, and documentation about the language lives at http://gambaswiki.org/wiki 📚

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker — they will fix it bestie, just tell them 🐛➡️🦋

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. ⚠️ Like, zero warranty, not even a little one, fr fr.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one's from August 2024, straight out of the GBW3(1) corner of the manual — mwah 💋

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