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hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:

> In article 722111275@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu, cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer I
> >roth@csoadm.enet.dec.com (Lee Roth) writes:
> >>Any suggestions as to which PC Basic would fill the following requirements?
> >>
> >>1) Compiler to produce standalone runnable programs (no interpreter baggage
> >
> >What is "interpreter baggage"?  That aside, there are a variety of
> >BASIC compilers for the PC that will produce standalone executables.
> >The only ones I'm aware of that *don't* do this are the interpreters
> >that come bundled with DOS (BASICA, GWBASIC, QBASIC).
> 
> Uh, unless I'm mistaken, Visual Basic, The Realizer, and even GFA Basic do no
> (at least, not currently) provide support for compilation of source code into
> standalone EXE files.  I'm sure what Lee was referring to is the run-time
> library that has to accompany "compiled" BASIC programs such as these Windows
> versions.  I'm not sure if Visual Basic for DOS has a "true" compiler or not.
> 
> Of the Windows Basics, only GFA has promised a true compiler RSN.  :)
> Hopefully one will be made available for VB 2.0 but the MS folks I spoke with
> said no comment.  Maybe that's a good sign?  :)

Qbasic has an option to compile stand alone or to require the run time 
library to be present.  

Greg

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