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I'm still unclear on the subject of compiling via C or ASM. When I first used PureBasic a few weeks ago (seems like a long time ago now ), I recall from other posts that ASM was being replaced by C, in order to target a greater number of CPUs.

I downloaded my current paid licence in July and I guessed that it was likely to be set to compile in C by default, but I'm not sure that's the case. In my ...\Compilers\ folder, there are two compilers. Are we supposed to manually switch to the C compiler? Can we remain with ASM anyway? If I open Compiler - Compiler Options, it shows "PureBasic 6.00 LTS (Windows - x64)" as the compiler. Is this ASM or C ? There are no alternatives in that drop-down list. Thanks.

The ASM backend compiler is the standard. The C-Backend compiler must be added manually in Preferences -> Compiler.

The exception here is Purebasic for macOS (M1) and Raspberry (Linux ARM). Here the compiler is the C-Backend by default and there is no ASM compiler because the processor instruction set is ARM.

mk-soft wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 12:25 pm The ASM backend compiler is the standard. The C-Backend compiler must be added manually in Preferences -> Compiler.

Thanks mk-soft. I guess as things stand, the majority of developers, with the exceptions you mention, should leave it set as it is then.

If you use the command line version of PureBasic pbcompiler.exe translates via ASM or pbcompilerc.exe translates via C to EXE.
Using the command line compiler