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I am looking to install Freebasic on a Raspberry Pi. I have already looked at the Freebasic forum - but it seems from a lot of posts that others have found that following the steps shown no longer end up working.

Other Pi forums have said that a working installation can be difficult to achieve.

I am trying to find a way to get the freebasic compiler running on an otherwise virgin installation, starting from Noobs.

At first I thought it was too difficult for me, but even some serious pi-enthusiasts who were going to help me have ended up stumped.

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This link has a step by step that can be considered simple, as long as attention is paid to the directories and first step, installing some necessary packages.

I followed steps 1 through 5 and installed it on my Raspberry. From what is reported there, "part of the problem is that FreeBASIC is written primarily in FreeBASIC, so you need a working compiler to initialize the latest version".

Therefore, you need to install an "old version" (step #2), clone the latest version and compile it with the old version (step #3). Uninstall old version (step #4) and install new version (step #5).

In step #3 I used the make -j4 command. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model B.

In my case, I used fbc_linux_armv6_rpi_0365_2020-01-12.zip as "old version". I tested the installation by compiling and running a program and it was OK, working perfectly.

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