PureBasic 6.11 LTS is out !

[Fred]

It produced even bigger exe than polink.

[Quin]

Thanks for all the work as always, Fred and team

[Blue]

[...]
2024-05-26: beta 3 is out, it mainly feature a new linker for Windows (lld-link) which should greatly decrease the executable size
[...]

Indeed !
My app shrank by 45% with this new linker.

Thanks Fred & all PB plumbers

[BarryG]

My app shrank by 45% with this new linker.

Wow!

[Blue]

My app shrank by 45% with this new linker.

Wow!

That's for a rather small app.
As they say, your mileage may vary...

[oreopa]

PB just gets better and better. The "new" C backend is incredible and seems to be working great with all my projects.

Massive thanx to Fred and all the team for the huge dedication involved in pushing PB forwards into a new era!

[FS-1281]

With the new version (change from 6.03 LTS to 6.11 LTS) I get an error dialog when compiling the exe
("Compile/Run" without the Option "Enable Debugger")

Strangely enough, the application runs with “Compile/Run” in debugging mode (Enable Debugger) without an error message

PureBasic - Linker error

error: undefined symbol:
_PB_DEBUGGER_SendTranslatedError@8
>>> referenced by
Gadget.lib(Gadget_DEBUG_COMMON_obj):(_IsCurrentObject)
>>>> referenced by
Gadget.lib(Gadget_DEBUG_COMMON_obj):(_CheckGadgetSize)
>>>> referenced by
Gadget.lib(Gadget_DEBUG_COMMON_obj):(_CheckGadgetSize)
>>>> referenced 3 more times

lld-ling: error: undefined symbol:
_PB_DEBUGGER_SendTranslatedErrorFucntion@12
...

I can't make much sense of the error message, except that it is probably related to a gadget.

[Fred]

Any chance to cut down your code to try to reproduce it in a snippet ? Are you using a third party lib ?

[FS-1281]

I do not use a third-party library.
The source code includes over 273694 line of code, will be difficult to reduce it, may try.

I have opened a new topic under Bugs - Windows

[Quin]

Hi Fred,
Just so you know, 6.11 still isn't listed in the news section of PureBasic.com

Cheers.

[DK_PETER]

Thank you.