Compile to C?

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So I put QB64 on the PATH. I did a CD \tmp. I typed qb64 -? and got the help text. So then i tried to compile a local file to C. What I got is below. It was weird: I had to be specific about the path even though the source file was in the directory I was invoking from. And to cap it off, I couldn't find any C code anywhere.

Does "-z" actually work?

Interestingly, if you want to run the IDE with a file from the command line, you also need to put in the full path.

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. C:\TMP>dir hello.bas
2.  Volume in drive C is OS
3.  Volume Serial Number is 2652-D365
4.  
5.  Directory of C:\TMP
6.  
7. 08/05/2019  10:41 PM               539 hello.bas
8.               1 File(s)            539 bytes
9.               0 Dir(s)  122,409,455,616 bytes free
10.  
11. C:\TMP>qb64 -z hello.bas
12. QB64 COMPILER V1.3
13.  
14. CANNOT LOCATE SOURCE FILE:hello.bas
15.  
16. C:\TMP>qb64 -z .\hello.bas
17. QB64 COMPILER V1.3
18.  
19. CANNOT LOCATE SOURCE FILE:.\hello.bas
20.  
21. C:\TMP>qb64 -z c:\tmp\hello.bas
22. QB64 COMPILER V1.3
23.  

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QB64 translates BAS to C, and then mingw compiles the C to an executable.

Your c-code can be located in internal\temp, with the majority of your program in main.txt.

Warning: it’s machine generated c and not pretty at all....

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Decidedly unpretty. But that's usually the case with machine generated code.