QB64 for web app development

[CharlieJV]

ADHD (attention-regulation deficiency), everything is a shiny object.

QB64 and InForm successfully installed.  I haven't even yet written and compiled my first program, and I'm thinking:  "Can we use QB64 for web app development?"

I may not get far before something else grabs my attention, but if I can tough it out, I need a place where I can keep notes and gather information from the QB64 community.  What better place than here?

Somewhere in this forum I haphazardly noticed, and now can't find the post, someone mentioning that in the process of compiling a QB64 program, it gets compiled to C++, and then to EXE.  I think I saw that the C++ file exists somewhere after compilation to EXE.

And I've read that Emscripten can be used to compile C++ into "WASM", while also creating an HTML page to go along with the WASM, such that any (?) web browser on whatever machine can run what was originally C++ code.  And in our case, if possible, BASIC code !

I'm thinking I really want to try this out somehow.

First TODO on my list is set myself up with a Debian bullseye machine on which I can install the Emscripten package.  Then see if I can setup a "Hello World" GB64 program running on the web.

If it makes sense, I'll treat this OP like a wiki page, and add useful references and such.


References

• WebAssembly (aka WASM)
• Emscripten, Wikipedia article, Debian (bullseye) package

Videos

• Compiling PGE For Web Browsers!

Posts in this forum:

• The future of QB64 (Reply 17 by davidshq)