Programming Resources
| Free Basic IDE’s and Compilers | |
|---|---|
| Active Basic | Visual Basic compiler and IDE which generates pure EXE files which are small in size, which do not require any extra runtim overheads. It supports ActiveX and OLE objects in the IDE. You need to have a Japanese-font browser plugin to view this page. |
| Envelop | Freeware Visual Basic compiler for Win32. Sadly, all further development of this tool has been stopped some time ago. |
| Fnx Basic | A freeware basic compiler to create Windows applications. The output is a single exe file which does not need any special dll’s. The information on the Fnx Website is minimal, but the download package includes a .chm help file as well as over a dozen example projects. |
| FreeBASIC | Open-source, free, 32-bit compiler for DOS and Linux, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC (including the GFX statements), but that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly, a pre-processor and many others. |
| Gambas | Free Basic compiler and IDE for Linux. |
| JustBasic | Free Basic compiler for Windows. |
| KBasic Personal | Freeware Basic compiler/IDE for personal use. The personal edition is freeware and runs on Windows and Linux. There is also a professional (non-free) edition and a MAC edition. KBasic supports object oriented programming, and it compiles the same code without any changes on Windows, Unix and MAC. |
| METAL | A free extended BASIC language metacompiler for MacOS X and MacOS Classic. |
| Panoramic | Freeware basic compiler for Windows, specialized towards multi-media, sound, 3D graphics/animation, 2D, etc. |
| Visual Basic Express | Visual Basic for Windows created by Microsoft. The Express edition is free. |
| XBasic | Advanced 32-bit/64-bit BASIC compiler with interactive graphical GuiDesigner. This appears to be a very powerful, if quirky, implementation of BASIC in a GUI environment. Formerly commercial, the author has now made it freeware. About 4.5 MB download. Runtime is about 1.5 MB. Creates multi-platform portable source code for Windows 95/98/NT, Linux and other forms of Unix. |
| Free Basic Interpreters | |
|---|---|
| Basic for OpenGL | Basic4GL is a free BASIC programming language for Win32 platforms with built in OpenGL v1.1 support. Basic4GL is a compiler and virtual machine, using a easy, simple syntax based on traditional BASIC. It is designed to be an easy to learn, easy to use language for writing games, 3D demos and utilities without all the setup hassle associated with most language compilers. |
| Chipmunk Basic | Traditional, console mode BASIC interpreter. Can run many old BASIC programs with little or no modification. Versions are available for MacOS, Palm, Linux, Windows, SUN, HPUX, SGI Irix. |
| Gambas | A free Basic-like language for Linux. Includes support for Unicode, objects, classes, polymorphism, inheritance, GUI programming, SQL, OpenGL, XML, CGI, QT, GTK+, network programming and more. |
| SmallBasic | Freeware Open-Source Basic interpreter for PalmOS, VTOS, Franklin’s, Linux, Win32 and DOS. |
| YABasic | A console mode BASIC interpreter with some capability for displaying graphics and animation in a non-interactive window. Used with PFE as an IDE, this is reasonably close to a 32-bit version of QBASIC. 180 KB download. Runs on Windows 95/98/NT. |
| Non-free Basic Compilers | |
|---|---|
| Liberty Basic | Generates Windows programs. Not freeware, but you can try it out for as long as you like. Registration is $29.95. Good programming tool, also in a teaching environment. |
| Realbasic | Powerful multi-platform basic compilers for Windows, Macintosh or Linux. The standard edition for Linux is free. |
| Free Basic Libraries | |
|---|---|
| FBMath | A library of mathematical/scientific routines and programs written in Pascal. |
| Basic Tutorials and Resources | |
| QBasic Tutorials | Free online tutorials for QBasic. |
| Liberty Basic Tutorials | Two online tutorials for learning programming with Liberty Basic. |
| Related Freebyte Pages | |
| Free Help File Authoring |
Free help-file authoring tools and programs to create WinHelp and HTMLHelp files. |
| Free Delphi Programming |
Free Delphi compilers, components, programming, libraries, tools and resources. |
| Free Pascal Programming |
Free pascal compilers, tutorials, tools and resources. |
| Free Cross-Platform Programming Tools |
Free programming tools, interpreters and frameworks following the principle ‘create once, compile anywhere’ or ‘create once, run anywhere’. This means that once you have created your program using one of the tools listed on this page, you can compile or run it on multiple platforms without much (if any) adaptation. |
| Free C++ (and C) Programming |
Free C++ IDE’s, compilers, libraries, tools, resources and tutorials for Linux/Unix, Windows, MAC, etc. |
| Free Assembler Programming |
Free tools for the assembler programmer for a variety of platforms and processors. |
| Free Cobol Programming |
Free Cobol compilers, tutorials and resources. |
| Free Databases | Freeware and open-source SQL database systems, freeware database tools, open-source (SQL) database libraries for Java, C++, Delphi. |
| Free Java Programming | Free Java IDE’s, compilers, object libraries, distribution and install tools, database systems, and tutorials. |
| Free Web Development | Free Web design and Web development tools. Free scripts, templates, tutorials and other resources. Free and easy-install Web servers (Apache + MySQL + PHP + more) for Linux, Windows, MAC. |
| Free Programming Tools | Free programming tools for Windows, Linux, etc. Free C++, C, Delphi, Basic, Assembler, Cobol, Pascal, Java, SQL, Databases; links to free compilers, databases, interpreters, IDE’s, installers, components, libraries, languages, helpfile generators and more. |
| Free Unicode and Multi-lingual Programming tools |
Free C++, Delphi and Java Unicode Libraries, free fonts and font-engines, free unicode resources and related information. |
| Free Website Tools | Free Website templates, clock widgets, counters, Web statistics, polls to put on your site, guest books to put on your site, DNS services, image optimizers and converters, background creation programs, URL forwarding services, site search engines, HTML editors, HTML and link validation tools, tutorials, resources, etc. |
| Free Web Development | Free Web design and Web development tools. Free scripts, templates, tutorials and other resources. Free and easy-install Web servers (Apache + MySQL + PHP + more) for Linux, Windows, MAC. |
| Free Operating Systems | Free operating systems, such as: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows clones, emulators and much more. Also: interesting alternative commercial operating systems. |
| Free Home pages | Publish your own Web pages for free! Find the best service to host your home page. Create your Web page without any knowledge of HTML. Free services which enable you to run your own CGI scripts (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc.). |
You May Also Like
Hosted FileMaker File Make Pre Upload Tips
WordPress Front-end Editor Error
