Pete's QBASIC Site

Hi,
when i compile my program is says at the status bar like thing in 7.1
Binding
does anyone know what this means

BTW,
recently this site was hit by a worm or something, part of the faq (link on homepage) is still defaced

Hi Ray,

Binding is the action of taking all the compiled module and merging them one after the other in order as to produce the executable file itself.

but my program is only made of one obj file and has no subs or function (made by me)

it still has to bind bcause the exe file has it's header and it's executable part

ok, it has never done this before, is it always going to

Never before? Hmmmm....I always thought binding was part of the compilation process...I take it there's not hcance you might have just never noticed it before? .

It always did in my case. Sometimes though the binding process is fast passed and if you blink you won't see it show you.

Binding is always here, but it's hardly noticed. Perhaps your program is starting to grow big? Or are you running something else in the bacground you did'nt run before?

well i probably never noticed before, but this isn't the largest program i've made, i can now see it because qb freezes while its binding.

Binding is what programming languages like WXBasic and RapidQ do to create executables for programs. With binding, when the code is compiled it is not converted to bytecode like QB, it is simply merged with a copy of the interpreter in a new file. When that new file is opened it runs the code with the interpreter.

i think i know what's your problem, enter here
http://qbnz.com/dav/qbkb/ and write
Binding
(it's case sensitive)