FBIde

An open-source IDE for the FreeBASIC. Lightweight, native, cross-platform — built on wxWidgets. This is a clean-room rewrite of the original FBIde (0.4.5) in modern C++23, replicating the feature set with a maintainable codebase.

Features

• Native FreeBASIC source editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, and auto-indent.
• One-key compile, run, and quick-run with parsed compiler errors.
• Themable editor.
• Sub / Function browser, code formatter with case conversion, find / replace, recent-files history, multi-document tabs.
• Localised UI (English plus a dozen translations)
• Per-file context-sensitive help (CHM on Windows, online wiki fallback).

Requirements

• C++23 compiler — MSVC 19.40+ on Windows, recent GCC or Clang on Linux.
• CMake 4.0 or newer.
• Ninja (recommended) or any CMake-supported generator.
• wxWidgets 3.3.2 or newer, built statically.

Build

Configure and build a Release tree:

cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DWXWIN=/path/to/wxwidgets/dist \
      -B build/release -S .
cmake --build build/release

Debug build:

cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
      -DWXWIN=/path/to/wxwidgets/dist \
      -B build/debug -S .
cmake --build build/debug

WXWIN points at the install prefix produced by cmake --install on a wxWidgets build — the directory containing lib/, include/, …. Both Debug and Release variants of wxWidgets must be installed into the same prefix if you intend to switch FBIde build types against the same wx tree.

The fbide executable lands in bin/fbide.exe (Windows) or bin/fbide (Linux). Tests build to build/<type>/tests/tests.exe and can be run via ctest from the build tree.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.