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XHarbour

Name	xHarbour
Version	1.20.01
Vendor
Author	Ron Pinkas, Mel Smith
Licence	GPL v2
WWW	http://www.xharbour.org

An open source xBase database compiler. A fork of Harbour, xHarbour was meant to be a more modern implementation of the xBase standard with better support for "modern GUI concepts". Initially it featured all the same back ends as Harbour had but as the main developers announced their intention to make the product commercial and as such support only Windows and Linux, most of the people supporting back ends other than these two went back to the Harbour Project and so did a number of other developers. And when the commercial variant showed up it only supported MS Windows.

The xHarbour project and in particular the open source variant is now for all intents dead as far as new developments are concerned although a sole developer has been keeping the Windows version updated privately but his changes do not show up in the official branch and sometimes are difficult to get hold of.

xHarbour is primarily written in C with a few libraries being written in C++.

Versions

Latest OS/2 version: [xharbour-0.99.7.bin.os2.gcc.zip] 0.99.7 - GCC back end support only.
Latest Windows version: 1.20.1
Latest Linux version: 1.20
All other ports: 0.99.6 (DOS, Mac OSX, FreeBSD)

Prerequisites

GCC compiler, used to compile the output of the xHarbour compiler into machine code.

Links

Source code repository
xHarbour newsgroup
Harbour vs. xHarbour - Document that shows the main difference between xHarbour and the original Harbour

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-==Description==
+{{Software
-An open source [[xBase]] database compiler. A fork of [[Harbour]], xHarbour was meant to be a more modern implementation of the xBase standard with better support for "modern GUI concepts". Initially it featured all the same back ends as Harbour had but as the main developers announced their intention to make the product commercial and as such support only Windows and Linux, most of the people supporting back ends other than these two went back to the Harbour Project. The xHarbour project and in particular the open source variant is now for all intents dead as far as new developments are concerned although a sole developer has been keeping the Windows version updated privately but his changes do not show up in the official branch and sometimes are difficult to get hold of.
+|Picture=Xharbourlogo.png
+|Name=xHarbour
+|Version=1.20.01
+|Author=Ron Pinkas, Mel Smith
+|Licence=[[GPL v2]]
+|WWW=http://www.xharbour.org
+}}
+An open source [[xBase]] database compiler. A fork of [[Harbour]], xHarbour was meant to be a more modern implementation of the xBase standard with better support for "modern GUI concepts". Initially it featured all the same back ends as Harbour had but as the main developers announced their intention to make the product commercial and as such support only Windows and Linux, most of the people supporting back ends other than these two went back to the Harbour Project and so did a number of other developers. And when the commercial variant showed up it only supported MS Windows.
+The xHarbour project and in particular the open source variant is now for all intents dead as far as new developments are concerned although a sole developer has been keeping the Windows version updated privately but his changes do not show up in the official branch and sometimes are difficult to get hold of.
+xHarbour is primarily written in [[C]] with a few libraries being written in [[C++]].
 ==Versions==
-*'''Latest OS/2 version:''' [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/database/xharbour-0.99.7.bin.os2.gcc.zip 0.99.7] - [[GCC]] back end support only.
+* Latest OS/2 version: [xharbour-0.99.7.bin.os2.gcc.zip] 0.99.7 - [[GCC]] back end support only.
 * Latest Windows version: 1.20.1
 * Latest Linux version: 1.20
 * All other ports: 0.99.6 ([[DOS]], Mac OSX, FreeBSD)
+;Prerequisites
+* [[GCC]] compiler, used to compile the output of the xHarbour compiler into machine code.
 ==Links==
-* [http://www.xharbour.org xHarbour Homepage]
+* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xharbour/files/ Source code repository]
-* [http://www.xharbour.com xHarbour commercial homepage]
-* [http://www.visualxharbour.com Visual xHarbour] - GUI development front end.
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.xharbour xHarbour newsgroup]
+* [https://code.google.com/p/harbour-and-xharbour-builds/downloads/detail?name=xhb-diff.txt Harbour vs. xHarbour] - Document that shows the main difference between xHarbour and the original Harbour
-==Author==
+[[Category:xBase]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:Software written in C++]]
-* Harbour Project (Original author)
-* Ron Pinkas (xHarbour head honcho)
-* Mel Smith
-[[Category:Tools]][[Category:Databases]][[Category:xBase]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:DOS Tools]][[Category:MS Windows Tools]][[Category:Linux Tools]][[Category:MAC OSX Tools]][[Category:BSD Tools]]