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XC=BASIC 3

XC=BASIC is a cross compiled, modern BASIC programming language for MOS 65xx based targets. The supported targets are:

• Commodore-64
• Commodore VIC-20
• Commodore-16
• Commodore Plus/4
• Commodore PET series
• Commodore-128

XC=BASIC compiles BASIC source code to fast machine code. Although not 100% compatible, its syntax was designed to be similar to that of QuickBASIC and CBM BASIC.

Documentation

You can find the documentation (including installation instructions) at xc-basic.net.

Compiling from source

You can find pre-compiled binaries for Windows (x86_64), Linux (x86_64, ARM) and macOS (x86_64) in the bin/ dir. If you run a different operating system, you have to compile the program from source.

XC=BASIC was written in the D programming language. To compile it, you need

• a D compiler (DMD is recommended)
• the DUB package manager

If you install DUB using a package manager, it will most likely install DMD as a dependency. When you have both installed, just cd to the XC=BASIC directory and issue the command:

dub build

Then move the generated executable to any subfolder in the bin/ dir, for example:

mkdir bin/myOS
mv xcbasic3 bin/myOS/

(This last step is important because XC=BASIC can only find the library files if they're located in ../../lib relative to the executable.)

That's it, you can now run XC=BASIC.