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XBLite is a Windows branch of the XBasic programming language. The XBLite compiler translates programs from source form into assembly language. From this point, conventional tools build the final executable program or DLL library. The XBLite compiler will work on all Windows platforms .

For more information and history on XBLite, read the Wikipedia entry for XBLite.

What can XBLite do?

XBLite is as well suited to novices as programming wizards, and is appropriate for virtually all programming tasks. For science and engineering XBLite has extensive math libraries, including complex number arithmetic. For business, XBLite has a 64-bit integer data type, user-defined types optimized for database I/O. XBLite can also connect to ODBC databases or use database libraries such as SQLite. For game developers, XBLite can call OpenGL, SDL, or DirectDraw libraries.

For all applications, XBLite designed to support rapid development of compact, efficient, reliable, readable, and well structured programs.

And XBLite includes a very powerful color syntax code editor, XSED, which allows the programmer to create and compile programs with ease.

Support for XBLite programming  can be found at the XBLite forum.

Why XBLite for Windows?

Created in 2002, XBLite is a branch of the XBasic project. XBasic was developed by Max Reason to be used under MS-Windows and LINUX OSs. In 2000, he made the entire language, compiler, and PDE freely available under an Open Source GPL. The XBasic language itself has not been altered so console programs in XBasic will run identically under XBLite. The XBLite compiler is also released under the Open Source GPL license.

XBLite for Windows has been enhanced, so it is now possible to:

  1. Create native command line Win32 console programs.
  2. Use the Windows common controls for creating native GUI applications.
  3. Easily add dialog and icon resources to your executable program.
  4. Use inline assembly language in your program.
  5. Include files and/or define macros within your code with the M4 preprocessor.
  6. Build executable programs from static libraries, eliminating dependencies on supporting DLL libraries.

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Join the XBLite forum on Google Groups and get answers to your questions about programming with XBLite.

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