Harbour: Difference between revisions

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Description

An open source multi-platform xBase database compiler that uses a C compiler as a back end to generate binaries. Although it has been forked a couple of times, Harbour is the oldest open source Clipper clone out there (if we ignore old xBase in clipper DOS tools like nanoBase) and has by far the largest mindshare out there, not the least because they have had a rather conservative attitude towards development and platform support.

Versions

Latest version: v.3.0.0

Prerequisites

Open Watcom C compiler, used to compile the output of the xHarbour compiler into machine code.
GCC compiler, alternative tool to compile the output of the xHarbour compiler into machine code, available in versions for both the 3.x and 4x GCC Branches.

Note that using the GCC back end means that the complied binary will rely on GCC DLL's

Links

Harbour Homepage
Harbour Project Brazil - In both English and Portuguese, some info on this page that is not on the main page, but otherwise outdated
Developers forum
Users forum

License

The bulk of the project is licensed under the GPL v2.

Author

Harbour Project
Antonio Linares (Project starter)
Maurilio Longo (OS/2 Port)
Przemyslaw Czerpak

Source

Harbour is primarily written in C with a few libraries being written in C++
Source code repository

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-An open source multi-platform [[xBase]] database compiler that uses a C compiler as a back end to generate binaries.
+An open source multi-platform [[xBase]] database compiler that uses a C compiler as a back end to generate binaries. Although it has been forked a couple of times, Harbour is the oldest open source Clipper clone out there (if we ignore old xBase in clipper [[DOS]] tools like [[nanoBase]]) and has by far the largest mindshare out there, not the least because they have had a rather conservative attitude towards development and platform support.
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 * Harbour is primarily written in [[C]] with a few libraries being written in [[C++]]
-* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project Source code repository]
+* [https://github.com/harbour/core/ Source code repository]
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