i need a tiny program like powerbasic for compiling basic applications that runs on the console of windows (tiny, so microsoft express edition is not an option). What do you recomend me?
You can use Microsoft's Visual Basic compiler from the command prompt:
vbc.exe Source.vb
The compiler is part of the .NET Framework installation and is located in
%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<Framework version>\vbc.exe
FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), 32-bit BASIC compiler[1] for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox.
http://freebasic.net
OS DOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows
License GNU GPL, Standard libraries licensed under the GNU LGPL
Quick Basic compiler link I found using search:
http://www.qbcafe.net/qbc/english/download/compiler/qbasic_compiler.shtml
There's a qbasic version still in development at http://www.qbasic.com/
QBasic http://www.qbcafe.net/qbc/english/download/compiler/qbasic_compiler.shtml
Best BASIC programming environment ever in my opinion (VisualBasic and Real Basic don't count but they are equally awesome)
And then there is XBasic
XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language
http://xbasic.sourceforge.net/
Both mentioned FOSS variants can compile for Windows
Hope it helps
JustBasic is free, small, and wonderful! And the users in the forums are extremely friendly and helpful! http://www.justbasic.com (I'm not sure if it's open source though... but it IS free)
I use QB64 a 64-bit compiler for Windows XP 7 8. Compiles most (or easily converted) QuickBasic 4.5 programs.
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I like the Linux operating system and vim editor, but there are many companies that develop under Windows environment in Visual studio etc. There is a possibility that I will have to work for such a company in about a month.
I'd like to do my work on my Linux system and copy the files to them. I have experience with both developments and I found out that I don't want to work with MS products but I like programming and writing MS code is not such a pain.
Are you a similar developer? Could you give me some advice about your methodology to be most of the time on Linux platform, to create code and debug everything in vim on Linux and only when neccessary open Visual Studio with Windows forms and similar things and test the things that weren't possible to test in Linux environment?
I would see the work in creating small peaces of code on Linux, testing them and then move it to MS platform and integrate to the whole system. How do you debug and test your code? The development will be probably in C# or C++. I can't imagine Visual Basic.
Please write here your experience, style of work, if this has sence or there are too many troubles and I should rather give up.
So the question is: How to develop applications that run on Windows with Linux tools, without touching Visual Studio and browsing with Windows file manager etc.
thank you
Not sure, if this will help you or not but there is a Vim Emulation layer for Visual Studio 2010 called VsVim.
Check out : http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-46ca-8fe1-0e90e3f79329
If I were you I'd install MinGW or Cygwin on your windows machine and just use gvim/vim anyway (or maybe just use the Win32 vim).
VS is just a big editor. You'll be building with the microsoft compilers ( perhaps using msbuild or nmake ) but probably are going to have to accept that you can only debug windows things with VS ( unless you build for MinGW or Cygwin and use gcc and gdb)
You can use vim as a code editor, you can even stick on Linux when developing software for the .NET platform. The people behind the Mono make this happen. Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.
You can stick to the editor of your liking and use the tools that come with Mono to compile your stuff. There is a IDE called Mono Develop, but compared to Visual Studio it is pretty basic... and compared to VIM it lacks simplicity.
C# projects are plain text files so it's easy enough to edit them over an SMB share in whatever editor you wish from anywhere the sysadmins let you.
Testing however will be difficult without going back to the windows machine, and while Mono implements the framework, it's still a different environment if you're targeting Windows.
I recently discovered Nemerle and F#, but I can't find any way to debug my applications.
MonoDevelop 2.6 lacks support of Nemerle and F#, 2.4.2 and earlier crashes because of newer gnome-sharp lib is installed (I'm running up-to-date Arch Linux kernel-3.0 64-bit). Command-line mono debugger refuses to start saying "platform not supported". So few questions about this situation:
It is possible to debug mono applications using gdb without going on low-level (inside vm or so) ?
How comfortable to use F# REPL for interactive development without debugger (compared to Common Lisp or Haskell's GHCi)?
I use the F# Interactive environment to write F# code most of the time. Even with Visual Studio, the F# Interactive environment doesn't (reasonably) support debugger, so I mainly rely on the ability to easily run something interactively and see if it works - if it doesn't, it is usually easy to split into sub-components that can be tried interactively too. The great thing about F# Interactive, compared to for example GHCi, is that you can use it to evaluate pretty much anything - including type declarations.
The F# plugin for MonoDevelop 2.4 doesn't currently support debugging of compiled F# applications. I was able to use command line Mono debugger (mdb, I think), but that was on 32bit system.
I'm not sure why MonoDevelop doesn't correctly pick F# debug symbols, so this is most likely some basic bug. There are a few poeple working on F# plugin for MD 2.6, so that should hopefully be available soon. If anybody wanted to investigate why the debugging doesn't work, that would be great...
Nemerle has great IDE support under Windows with Visual Studio and #Develop, better than F#, but there is nothing for Linux, as far as I know.
You can easily debug Nemerle in MonoDevelop.
Just convert pdb to mono format using pdb2mdb tool: http://www.mono-project.com/Guide:Debugger
Than just debug your application, and you get correct locations.
I even managed to debug Nemerle compiler using this trick.
About Linux and Nemerle :
Nemerle got Vim bindings, Kwrite/Kate and some other editors got ntive Nemerle support. You can also add compiler option to any editors in Linux. Nemerle compiler is just works !
Nemerle MonoDevelop support in developing but really slow. F# got outdated MonodeVelop support as #Tomas said but what about new MonoDevelop ? PowerPack ? F# 3 ? That is complex task I think so.
Nemerle is OpenSource project. And I'm not sure about F# 3. I like F# but it's always behind the Microsoft hand. You are free to try both.
Is it possible to run VB.NET in Linux?
I have written code in VB.NET and compiled it as well using Visual Studio in Windows.
Can the same code be written (and compiled) on Linux as well?
If yes, then which software do I need to install on Linux?
Is the Linux alternative of VB.NET freeware?
You can run Visual Basic, VB.NET, C# code and applications on Linux.
The most popular .NET IDE is Visual Studio (now in version 2019) that runs in Windows and macOS. A good alternative for Linux users is Visual Studio Code (runs on Linux, Windows and Mac).
You can compile and run VB.NET code and applications (part of .NET framework, consider the successor of Visual Basic, with several language differences from Visual Basic 6.0). A subset of .NET is .NET Core that can be installed on
Red Hat Linux,
Ubuntu,
Linux Mint,
Debian,
Fedora,
CentOS,
Oracle Linux
and openSUSE Linux distributions.
Setup details are on https://www.microsoft.com/net/core.
You can also use Mono, a free and open-source project led by Xamarin (a subsidiary of Microsoft) and the .NET Foundation. The project focus is to support an ECMA standard-compliant .NET Framework-compatible set of tools (including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime).
Mono can be installed on
Ubuntu,
Debian,
Raspbian (used in Raspberry Pi)
and CentOS Linux distributions.
You can run most Windows applications (created with VB, VB.NET or with other tools) using Wine that supports the Windows API on Linux.
** About Visual Basic (not VB.NET, due to the original question) **
Note that the last version of visual basic is 6.0, released in 1998, declared legacy during 2008 and supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 including R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 8.x. There are also other basic flavors (like QuickBASIC, Gambas or others).
The support end dates for Visual Basic 6.0 are:
The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE [Integrated Development Environment]:
supported ended on April 8, 2008.
Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime the base libraries and execution engine used to run Visual Basic 6.0 applications: support ended on April 8, 2014.
Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files: support ended on April 8, 2014.
You could have a look at the Mono VisualBasic.Net support, or maybe go and check out the Gambas project.
You won't find a fully compatible solution.
There are a few, like SimpleBasic, GnomeBasic and XBasic. None of them are fully compatible with Visual Basic.
The above answer was accepted eons ago, but is horribly outdated, since more recently, there's also .NET Core. This will run the actual VB.NET language, but it will not use Windows Forms controls and features powering most real VB.NET applications. .NET Core 3 does support some variation of Windows Forms, but only on Windows.
Please check Pedro Polonia's excellent answer that contains all the details that mine misses.
Mono is a really interesting project. You can run applications on Linux.
Is not fully compatible, but they are working on that.
Take a look in this site Working with Mono
VB on linux is posible using vb2005.
First install wine.
run in the terminal winetricks dotnet20 dotnet40
download the installer and run it
(wine Downloads/yourinstaller.exe)
execute wine WINEPREFIX=~/yourprefix WINEARCH='win32' wine yourprefix/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 8/Common7/IDE/vbexpress.exe
Gambas Basic is actively developed and works good. Here you can find a small tutorial for programming a calculator:
Gambas Basic 3.14
This is now possible using .NET Core.
Publish .NET apps with the .NET CLI
How to run a .NET Core console application on Linux
The Java countdown is now running :-)
For those looking for an alternative to Visual-Basic and Visual-Studio with cross-platform support, B4J (Basic For Java) is a good choice too. It's free, kind-of\semi "open-sourced" and really user friendly especially for those coming from VS.
Is there any Visual C++ compiler for linux supporting most of VS Visual C++?
If there is no such what is best alternative for porting\adapting your visual C++ code to?
Visual C++ refers to an Integrated Development Environment and C++ Compiler. It is strictly Windows only * implementation* for all practical intents and purposes.
C++ is a language. Linux has several compilers for C++. If you use non-portable extensions, such as #pragma once instead of include guards, using the DLL import/export stuff, or the Windows APIs type system, then your code will be less portable between implementations. Much of this can be controlled with judicious use of the pre processor and some common sense.
The best way is to write portable code and libraries in the first place. It is not as hard as it sounds.
Now for this comment: I will apologise for sounding offensive, but if you can't tell the difference between "C++" and "Visual C++", please learn such elements of the English language (and C++). It will help you in the long run, programming wise.
Compilers for Linux -> GNU C/C++ (GCC/G++). See also Intels compiler.
IDEs for Linux -> generally run on Windows too, check wikipedia.
Mono supports running CIL-only (meaning no mixed-mode assemblies) C++/CLI assemblies, but there's no C++/CLI or Managed C++ compiler on Linux.
You can read information about this in the Mono project page: http://www.mono-project.com/CPlusPlus
If you mean a compiler that supports most of the VS extensions/standards non-compliance you're out of luck. If you mean an environment to compile/port to Linux, I would just use g++ and get yourself an editor such as Emacs. I've also heard good things about Code::blocks.
I don't think there's a compiler for Managed C++ or C++/CLI other than for Windows. The Mono project (.NET for Linux) has a C# compiler, although I don't know how up to date that is.
Anyway, I thought the whole idea about .NET was that it is a platform in itself. Can't you just run your Windows executables on Mono?
When I am porting my Windows code to Linux, I usually use Eclipse in Windows along with minGW.
I use NetBeans with TDM-GCC. Unfortunately I have not been able to get gdb to work under windows.
I have had difficulty figuring out how to use F# on Linux - I would really appreciate help.
Well, My box: Ubuntu, mono, fsharp, emacs and fsharp-mode
with fsharp-mode you have
highlighting
interactive console
emacs :-).
Also, you can try to install .net 2.0 on wine (with winetricks for example) together with sharpdevelop 2.2.
Personaly i've decided to use emacs and fsharp-mode.
UPDATE:
another option is to use regular editor such as kate in OCaml mode but it can be inconvenient due to differences between languages.
Here's a similar question with detailed answers:
How to get F# working with Mono?
Simple example of compilation command can be found at here:
http://gist.github.com/raw/144209/02f2f4450ed8261c5e4f3c18055de89ff0db9612/FebKit.fs
This question is quite old now, but this can help other people. In CodePlex there is a project called F# cross-platform packages and samples. It has some linux packages (and also for Mac). Click here for the download page.
Google for F#, and the very first entry that comes up is http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/ - and one of the first things on that page is:
Download F# now --> Visual Studio 2010, or CTP Update for Visual Studio 2008 or standalone compiler+library ZIP, for Mono and Windows
Have you installed that, and is something not working for you?
Keke, this is a late answer, but I have a post that explains how you can install F# under Linux and Mac systems. It assumes you understand how to compile software for Linux.
Here it is: http://blog.gnucom.cc/2009/installing-f-on-ubuntu-8-04/
Let me know what you think.