.bas to .exe

[logicalaxiom]

how do you make .bas to .exe ?

[Anonymous]

well you could download qb 4.5 or 7.1, which is TECHNICALLY illegal, but noone really cares..

of you could download FB theres a whole forum under this one for it and your progs will be like 92 times faster. and cooler

[Moneo]

I think Cha0s assumes you know about compiling. Just in case you don't, to convert a .BAS to .EXE you need to pass your .BAS through a compile process.

For QBasic or PDS 7.1, you can load or edit your .BAS in the IDE (Integrated Development Environment). From the IDE, you can run you program directly, which in essence performs a compile on the .BAS and then runs it, without producing a .EXE. Also from the IDE, you can request a compilation which does produce a .EXE, which you can later run as required.

In QuickBasic, as far as I know, you only have the option of supplying your .BAS to the compiler program and producing a .EXE.

In GWBASIC, BASICA, or older BASIC, there was no compilation available; that is, you ran your .BAS in interpreted mode. These Basics were called "interpretive compilers". Just before Quickbasic came out, there were several versions of BASCOM available, which compiled these .BAS files ino a .EXE.

Now, you also have the option of feeding your .BAS to the FreeBasic compiler (FBC) and producing a .EXE. There are different versions of FreeBasic for producing 16-bit executables which run under MSDOS, and 32-bit executables which run under Windows. The most popular is the Windows version.

So, if you don't already have some dialect of Basic which comes with a compiler, then I suggest moving forward to FreeBasic. Besides being free, it is the most robust and advanced implementation of Basic today, and there is plenty of help right here on this forum.
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[Dio]

where do you download freebasic? I think a had it once...

[whitetiger0990]

You can download it at http://freebasic.net