regarding the PB editor and alternative IDE/interfaces

Mike Yurgalavage · Post by **Mike Yurgalavage** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:22 am

i love how quickly i can code and test and see debug output and have several files in the IDE at one time with PB.

unfortunately i have to convert my PB projects to another language for compatability with 64bit OS (some commands require that my apps be 64 bit). PB cannot compile to 64 bit apps.

therefore, i am looking for a programming suite or solution that is powerful (like c++ or c#) but also may have a very nice IDE and interface/editor similar to purebasic, where you can code and test and debug quickly without all the linker problems/crap but will compile to 64 bit.

i haven't looked at ms vis studio in awhile and i don't know if it has more of a visual editing interface with more friendly compiling/linking, etc. and maybe debugging windows, etc. similar to pb?

what are the options for me?

best,
Mike

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:19 am

I had thought that in order to compile to 64bit... the compiler had to be capable of compiling to 64bit.

I think, for some reason, PB uses fasm... I have no idea is fasm is 64bit or not, but I don't think it is!

Post by **Rings** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:45 am

often discussed, so only some small answers:

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:... I have no idea is fasm is 64bit or not, but I don't think it is!

fasm can do 64 bit, on linux and win64.

Mike Yurgalavage wrote:therefore, i am looking for a programming suite or solution that is powerful (like c++ or c#) but also may have a very nice IDE and interface/editor similar to purebasic, where you can code and test and debug quickly without all the linker problems/crap but will compile to 64 bit.

i haven't looked at ms vis studio in awhile and i don't know if it has more of a visual editing interface with more friendly compiling/linking, etc. and maybe debugging windows, etc. similar to pb?

the only solution to compile nativly for 64 bit would be c++ with
Visual studio/GCC or the .NET-Plattform(VB.NET,c# also with VisualStudio). no other practible way yet,neither seen a native basic-compiler.....and VisualStudio has a wonderfull IDE,Debugger etc........

Mike Yurgalavage · Post by **Mike Yurgalavage** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:11 pm

appreciate you taking the time to read.

thanks for the replies!

Mike

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:34 pm

the only solution to compile nativly for 64 bit would be c++ with

No, there's more.

www.lazarus.freepascal.org

www.freepascal.org wrote:Overview

Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0.
The following operating systems are supported:
Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.

gvc · Post by **gvc** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:40 pm

bembulak wrote:
the only solution to compile nativly for 64 bit would be c++ with
No, there's more. www.lazarus.freepascal.org

Thanks for the tip. Lazarus has a nice editor and most of all, it's object oriented.

Geert

yoxola · Post by **yoxola** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:05 pm

I have a 64bit Win3002 server, basically it runs 32bit programs except device drivers and some hooking/momory apps, those working programs just runs not as fast as native 64 exe if I do a recompile against Intel C++(in case you have source)..

Well, as to other languages, non-standard or non-opensource ones are not in my choice tho(for some reasons).

Bite the bullet and learn C++?