Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by signaru on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:44PM (#22576614)

Thanks. Though, I still think it would be cool if there's a more native port that runs out of the box.

Curious to know the experience on the Gambas apps produced in Windows. I guess they would also need Cygwin?

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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by xet7 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:45PM (#22578967)

I tried to install Gambas with info above, and seems it did not start on Win10.

I also think that on Windows Cygwin is required.

Following is from bottom of page http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/faq?nh&l=en#t12

"Will you port Gambas to Windows™ ?

I won't, but I will help any people trying to do that.

Gambas already runs under Cygwin. Note that there is a lot of things to port, if you want to do a native port: process management, gb.qt4 component, and so on... This is a huge job. The most promising compiler target would be Mingw-w64, which also allows cross compilation on a unix-like system."

If you use Gambas for making web apps, then you could use webbrowser to access those apps. Gambas IDE has wizard for web app, and some components that can be dragged to form. From some forum discussions I have read that debugging those web apps is easier then debugging php apps.

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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by xet7 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:48PM (#22578984)

For more info about Gambas, you can watch Gambas interview at Floss Weekly:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/353

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