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The original QuickBasic/QBasic could definitely generate standalone compiled EXEs using the Basic Compiler (BC.EXE). IIRC it wasn't included until QBasic 4.5 a
by notpeter 9y ago
The original QuickBasic/QBasic could definitely generate standalone compiled EXEs using the Basic Compiler (BC.EXE). IIRC it wasn't included until QBasic 4.5 and was expanded further in QB7 (aka Basic Professional Development System).
- jackvalentine 9y ago12 year old me facepalms at not knowing that.
- Narishma 9y agoNo need. That person was wrong. QBasic didn't include a compiler.
- copx 9y agoNo, QBASIC could not. QBASIC was a limited, interpreter-only version of QuickBASIC which you got for free with MS-DOS. QuickBASIC was a separate commercial product from Microsoft which did include an AOT native code compiler.
- pan69 9y agoI thought so as well, so I decided to Google it: QBasic was intended as a replacement for GW-BASIC. It was based on the earlier QuickBASIC 4.5 compiler but without QuickBASIC's compiler and linker elements. So, from this, QBasic was not able to generate .EXE's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic