[Gambas-user] COMPARISON FILE

[Rob]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:20, BUDI ARIEF GUSANDI wrote:
> Benoit : Do you mean that the destination PC should have
> Gambas compiler as well ? What about if i want to burn it to
> compact flash...that would be a huge size then..;)

You will need to try to build gambas against qt/embedded, in that 
case.  I think it should be possible, but I haven't tried it.  I 
really think it's not a pressing matter yet, either.... how many 
years went by before MS made a VB for embedded systems *after* 
VB hit 1.0? ;)

Gambas does not compile to native code, it compiles to tokenized 
pseudo-code (dunno what the technical term would be) and needs 
an interpreter and any used components at runtime.  The gambas 
compiler, archiver, IDE and info generator do not need to be on 
the target system, just the interpreter (/usr/bin/gbx) and 
components (e.g. /usr/lib/gambas/lib.gb.qt.so, which on my 
machine is 8MB!)

At some point maybe someone will try to write a p-code to native 
code compiler that will statically link in any components you 
need, but I sure am not going to try ;)

Rob