Compile, build and execute Qb64 code in Geany?

Question

Good evening,

I installed Geany 1.24 in my computer and I have also installed QB64 (I don't remember which version and the official site is down). OS: Windows XP.

In Geany, when I write a program in Basic it doesn't compile it (aside from returning a succesfull compiled program). However, if I have an already compiled program it still doesn't compile it again (after making any change) but it lets me to execute it.

So I was wondering if anyone knows of a setup for the "Set Build Commands" to properly run QB64 in Geany. I also have Free Pascal IDE 2.6.4 installed and Geany recognized it on the first run and can compile and execute pascal code succesfully.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Geany is only supporting FreeBasic in its latest 1.24 version out of the box -- not sure how similar these are. You might get QB64 running by updating/changing file definitions. A good starting point would be the manual. If this not is working, you might like to patch Geany based on the hacking guide. There is a short checklist what to do to add a new file type from scratch.

If QB is quiet similar to FreeBasic, it might be enough to change filettype_extensions.conf to make your QB-scripts recognized as FreeBasic and update the build strings on menu Build- >configure build parameters (or something like that ... only got a German version here) -- it's the last point in the menu.

Answer 2

You need to tell Geany to run QB64.EXE with the -x command line parameter:
QB -x yourfile.bas
In Geany, you need to go to the Tools menu, select Configuration files select Filetype configuration, Programming languages, filetypes.freebasic. In filetypes.freebasic, change
fbc -w all "%f"
to
qb64 -x "%f"