From: brianm@ims.com (Brian McLaughlin)
Subject: Re: PB to C?
 
Scott Vetter  writes:
|> Since PB doesn't have native OS/2 support, is there a program which
|> will take PB (or any old basic) and create "C" program source?
 
There is a shareware product, called OmniBasic, that takes
BASIC source and outputs ANSI C code that can be compiled
using a GNU-licensed C compiler that was ported to OS/2
from the UNIX world (I forget the name right now of the
ported compiler). Since it's ANSI C, I presume that any
commercial C compiler for OS/2 would accept the code, too.
 
The "catch" is that OmniBasic accepts a very restricted
set of BASIC syntax compared to PB, so your PB code might
require a LOT of tweaking, and probably some major work-arounds
to make it OmniBasic compliant. Then again, if it's simple
code, maybe not.
 
Liberty BASIC also has an OS/2 version of its compiler.
It is a beta version, and can be d/l from the Liberty
BASIC home page. It doesn't produce C code, though.
 
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