Welcome to Harbour

Harbour is the free software implementation of a multi-platform, multi-threading, object-oriented, scriptable programming language, backward compatible with Clipper/xBase. Harbour consists of a compiler and runtime libraries with multiple UI and database backends, its own make system and a large collection of libraries and interfaces to many popular APIs.

Table of Content

Guarantees and Liability
How to Participate
How to Get
How to Build
How to Do a Partial Build
How to Create Distributable Packages
How to Enable Optional Components
Build Options
Build Examples
Build Your Own Harbour App
Debugging Options
Troubleshooting
Supported Platforms and C Compilers
Platform Matrix
External links
Harbour Links

Guarantees and Liability

This document and all other parts of Harbour are distributed in the hope they will be useful, but there is NO GUARANTEE that they are complete, accurate, non-infringing or usable for any purpose whatsoever. Contributors are NOT LIABLE for any damages that result from using Harbour in any ways. For more legal details, see LICENSE.

If you think you can make Harbour better, start to contribute. See How to Participate.

The information this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent any future commitment by the participants of the project.

How to Participate

There are several ways to help making Harbour better:

You can give feedback/suggestions to developers on available channels, see Harbour Links.
Submit a change:
1. Fork Harbour
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b my_mod
3. Do commit pre-check and new log entry: hbrun bin/commit
4. Commit your changes: git commit -am "Added my feature"
5. Push to the branch: git push origin my_mod
6. Open a Pull Request
Always use the same coding/formatting style as you find in the files you're modifying. The easiest way to achieve this is to use these commands to format the sources:
```
  $ uncrustify -c <harbour_dir>/bin/harbour.ucf <source(.c|.h)>
  $ <harbour_dir>/bin/hbformat <source(.prg|.hb|.ch)>
```
Text editor setting for Harbour files
- Encoding is either 7-bit ASCII or UTF-8 (without BOM)
- Always use spaces, never tabs
- Remove trailing spaces from lines
- Always keep one (not zero or multiple) newline at the end of file
- Use platform native newline (CRLF or LF)
In the rare case you need to send something large (> 100KB), use this free service.
Of course, there is more into Harbour contribution than writing code, so you're welcome to do so in other areas like documentation, helping fellow users, giving input on decisions, testing in various environments, volunteering in administration tasks, etc.
Participate in localization:

How to Get

Stable versions

Harbour stable binary download

Download binary archive from this page and unpack or install:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/
(choose the highest version number)

Harbour stable source download

Download source archive from this page and unpack:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/harbour-project/files/source/
(choose the highest version number)

Unstable versions

WARNING: Recommended for users contributing to Harbour development, following the development mailing list, commits and reading ChangeLog.txt.

Harbour live source repository

You'll need Git version control software installed on your system, and issue this command:

git clone https://github.com/harbour/core.git harbour-core

You can get subsequent updates using this command:

git pull

Harbour unstable sources

Download source archive from any of these links and unpack:

Harbour unstable binaries (updated once a day from live source repository)

Windows (unified):

Follow commits using any of these facilities

How to Build

Before reporting a problem to developers, make sure to read Troubleshooting and try the suggestions you find there.

For all platforms you'll need:

Supported ANSI C compiler
GNU Make (3.81 recommended, minimum 3.79 required, see also platform details)
Harbour sources (2.0.0 or upper)

on Windows hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows CE, MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux)

Platform specific prerequisites:

Windows XP or upper system is recommended to build Harbour.
Make sure to have your C compiler of choice properly installed in PATH. Refer to your C compiler installation and setup instructions for details. It's recommended to make sure no tools in your PATH belonging to other C compilers are interfering with your setup. It's also highly discouraged to keep multiple copies of the same compiler, or different versions of the same compiler in PATH at the same time. For the list of supported compilers, look up Supported Platforms and C Compilers.
GNU Make 3.81 or upper is required. A copy of this tool is included in all Harbour packages, so you don't have to do anything. If you want to get it separately, you can find it here Unpack it to your PATH or Harbour source root directory, and run it as mingw32-make.

To build:

> win-make [install]

To test it, type:

> cd tests
> ..\bin\hbmk2 hello.prg
> hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

on Windows hosts with POSIX shells (MSYS/Cygwin)

Though you can use these alternative shells to build Harbour on Windows, it's generally recommended to use the native one.

To build:

> sh -c make [install]

To test it, type:

> cd tests
> ..\bin\hbmk2 hello.prg
> hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

When building for Borland C++ make sure that GNU Make is executed when typing make, Borland Make has the same name.

on MS-DOS hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, OS/2, Linux)

Make sure to have your C compiler of choice properly installed in PATH.

To build:

> dos-make [install]

To test it, type:

> cd tests
> ..\bin\hbmk2 hello.prg
> hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

on OS/2 hosts (possible cross-build targets: MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux)

To build:

> os2-make [install]

To test it, type:

> cd tests
> ..\bin\hbmk2 hello.prg
> hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

on Linux hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS, OS/2)

To build:

$ make [install] [HB_PLATFORM=<...>]

To test it, type:

$ cd tests
$ hbmk2 hello.prg
$ ./hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

on Darwin (OS X) hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS)

Platform specific prerequisite: Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode installed

To build:

$ make [install] [HB_PLATFORM=<...>]

To test it, type:

$ cd tests
$ hbmk2 hello.prg
$ ./hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

You can override default (host) architecture by adding values below to HB_USER_CFLAGS, HB_USER_LDFLAGS envvars, you can use multiple values:

Intel 32-bit: -arch i386
Intel 64-bit: -arch x86_64
PPC 32-bit: -arch ppc
PPC 64-bit: -arch ppc64

on FreeBSD hosts

Platform specific prerequisites:

You'll need to have the developer tools installed.
Then you'll need to install gmake and optionally bison. If you installed the ports collection, then all you need to do to install bison and gmake is to run the following commands, which may require that you run su root first to get the correct permissions:
```
 $ cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake
 $ make
 $ make install
 $ make clean
 $ cd /usr/ports/devel/bison
 $ make
 $ make install
 $ make clean
```

To build:

$ gmake install

To test it, type:

$ cd tests
$ hbmk2 hello.prg
$ ./hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

on Minix hosts

Install GNU make from the Minix pkgsrc repository; for details see here.

Optionally, GCC may also be installed if you wish to use that instead of Clang, the Minix system compiler.

on other *nix hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS)

To build:

$ gmake [install] [HB_PLATFORM=<...>]

Or

$ make [install] [HB_PLATFORM=<...>]

To test it, type:

$ cd tests
$ hbmk2 hello.prg
$ ./hello

You should see Hello, world! on screen.

For sunpro on Solaris:
If you have any GNU binutils stuff installed, do make sure /usr/ccs/bin (the location of the native Sun C compilation system tools) come before the GNU binutils components in your $PATH.

How to Do a Partial Build

If you want to build only a specific part of Harbour, like one core library or all core libraries, or all contrib packages, you have to do everything the same way as for a full build, the only difference is that you first have to go into the specific source directory you want to build. When starting GNU Make, all components under that dir will be built:

cd src/rtl
<make> [clean] [install]

If you want to rebuild one specific contrib package, use this:

cd contrib
hbmk2 make.hb <name> [clean] [custom hbmk2 options]

How to Create Distributable Packages

Source .tgz on *nix

$ package/mpkg_src.sh

Binary .tgz on *nix

$ export HB_BUILD_PKG=yes
$ make clean install

Binary .deb on Linux

$ fakeroot debian/rules binary

Binary .rpm on Linux

$ package/mpkg_rpm.sh

You can fine-tune the build with these options:

--with static      - link all binaries with static libs
--with ads         - build components dependent on ads (rddads)
--with allegro     - build components dependent on allegro (gtalleg)
--with cups        - build components dependent on cups (hbcups)
--with cairo       - build components dependent on cairo (hbcairo)
--with curl        - build components dependent on libcurl (hbcurl)
--with firebird    - build components dependent on firebird (hbfbird, sddfb)
--with freeimage   - build components dependent on freeimage (hbfimage)
--with gd          - build components dependent on gd (hbgd)
--with mysql       - build components dependent on mysql (hbmysql, sddmy)
--with odbc        - build components dependent on odbc (hbodbc, sddodbc)
--with pgsql       - build components dependent on pgsql (hbpgsql, sddpg)
--with localzlib   - build local copy of zlib library
--with localpcre   - build local copy of pcre library
--without x11      - do not build components dependent on x11 (gtxwc)
--without curses   - do not build components dependent on curses (gtcrs)
--without slang    - do not build components dependent on slang (gtsln)
--without gpllib   - do not build components dependent on GPL 3rd party code
--without gpm      - build components without gpm support (gttrm, gtsln, gtcrs)

Binary .rpm on Linux (cross-builds)

for Windows:

$ package/mpkg_rpm_win.sh

for Windows CE:

$ package/mpkg_rpm_wce.sh

Binary .zip and .exe on Windows for all targets (except Linux)

$ set HB_DIR_NSIS=%ProgramFiles%\NSIS\
$ set HB_DIR_ZIP=C:\info-zip\
$ set HB_BUILD_PKG=yes

Then run build as usual with clean install options. See: How to Build

Binary .zip on MS-DOS for all targets (except Linux)

$ set HB_DIR_ZIP=C:\info-zip\
$ set HB_BUILD_PKG=yes

Then run build as usual with clean install options. See: How to Build

Unified .7z and .exe installer for Windows

$ package\winuni\mpkg_win_uni.bat

Carefully read in-file instructions and do the necessary steps before calling the script.

How to Enable Optional Components

Certain Harbour parts – typically contrib packages – depend on 3rd party components. To make these Harbour parts built,you need to tell Harbour where to find the headers for these 3rd party components.

On *nix systems most of these 3rd party components will automatically be picked up if installed on well-known standard system locations.

You only need to use manual setup if the dependency isn't available on your platform on a system location, or you wish to use a non-standard location. Typically you need to do this on non-*nix (Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2) systems for all packages and for a few packages on *nix which aren't available through official package managers (f.e. ADS Client).

Note that Harbour is tuned to use 3rd party binary packages in their default, unmodified – "vanilla" – install layout created by their official/mainstream install kits. If you manually move, rename, delete or add files under the 3rd party packages' root directory, the default Harbour build process (especially Windows implib generation) might not work as expected.

You can set these environment variables before starting the build. Make sure to adjust them to your own directories:

HB_WITH_ADS=C:\ads\acesdk
HB_WITH_ALLEGRO=C:\allegro\include
HB_WITH_BLAT=C:\blat\full\source
HB_WITH_BZIP2=C:\bzip2 (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_CAIRO=C:\cairo\include\cairo
HB_WITH_CUPS= (on *nix only)
HB_WITH_CURL=C:\curl\include
HB_WITH_CURSES= (on *nix systems and DJGPP, where it's autodetected)
HB_WITH_EXPAT=C:\expat\lib (defaults to locally hosted version)
HB_WITH_FIREBIRD=C:\Firebird\include
HB_WITH_FREEIMAGE=C:\FreeImage\Dist
HB_WITH_GD=C:\gd\include
HB_WITH_GPM= (on Linux only)
HB_WITH_GS=C:\ghostscript-9.01\psi
HB_WITH_GS_BIN=C:\ghostscript-9.01\bin (on Windows)
HB_WITH_JPEG=C:\jpeglib (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_LIBHARU=C:\libharu\include (defaults to locally hosted version)
HB_WITH_LIBMAGIC= (currently on *nix systems)
HB_WITH_LZF=C:\liblzf (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_MINILZO=C:\minilzo\ (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_MINIZIP=C:\zlib\contrib\minizip (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_MXML=C:\minixml (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_MYSQL=C:\mysql\include
HB_WITH_OCILIB=C:\ocilib\include
HB_WITH_ODBC= (may only be needed on non-Windows systems)
HB_WITH_OPENSSL=C:\openssl\inc32 OR C:\openssl\include
HB_WITH_PCRE=C:\pcre (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_PGSQL=C:\pgsql\include
HB_WITH_PNG=C:\libpng (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_QT=C:\Qt\include (version 4.5.0 or upper is required)
HB_WITH_SLANG= (on *nix systems)
HB_WITH_SQLITE3=C:\sqlite3 (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_TINYMT=C:\tinymt\tinymt (defaults to locally hosted version)
HB_WITH_WATT= (on MS-DOS systems)
HB_WITH_X11= (on *nix systems)
HB_WITH_XDIFF=C:\libxdiff-0.23\xdiff (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)
HB_WITH_ZLIB=C:\zlib (defaults to locally hosted version if not found)

To explicitly disable any given components, use the value no. This may be useful to avoid autodetection of installed packages on *nix systems. You may also use the value local to force using the locally hosted copy (inside Harbour source repository) of these packages, where applicable. nolocal will explicitly disable using locally hosted copy.

You can override autodetection of QT 'moc' tool by using HB_QTPATH and optionally HB_QTPOSTFIX envvars. This may only be necessary on some *nix systems. F.e.:

HB_QTPATH=/opt/qt5/bin/ HB_QTPOSTFIX=

Certain contribs can be instructed – when using .hbc files – to link against static build of their 3rd party lib dependencies (for advanced users only):

HB_STATIC_ALLEGRO=yes
HB_STATIC_CURL=yes
HB_STATIC_OPENSSL=yes

NOTES:

you need to use native path format to your shell/OS

spaces in directory names aren't currently supported (you can use 8.3 name alias on Windows platform, though)

don't put directory names inside double quotes

use absolute paths

Darwin (OS X)

Install Homebrew

Install packages:

 $ brew install pcre slang cairo freeimage libgd mysql postgresql qt5
 $ brew install upx uncrustify ack optipng jpegoptim

Linux (generic)

For contrib/rddads lib:

Download and install Advantage Client Engine API for Linux package (f.e. aceapi-10.00.0.3.tar.gz)

For contrib/hbhpdf lib, if you don't wish to use locally hosted version:

Download libharu from http://libharu.org/ -> ./configure -> make install

Linux (.deb based distros: Debian, Ubuntu)

You'll need these base packages to build/package/test/use Harbour:

$ sudo apt-get install bash git gcc binutils fakeroot debhelper valgrind upx uncrustify

You'll need these packages to compile certain contribs and optional Harbour features:

  for gtcrs terminal lib:    $ sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev
  for gtsln terminal lib:    $ sudo apt-get install libslang2-dev OR
                             $ sudo apt-get install libslang1-dev
  for gtxwc terminal lib:    $ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
  for console mouse support: $ sudo apt-get install libgpm-dev OR
                             $ sudo apt-get install libgpmg1-dev
  for contrib/gtalleg lib:   $ sudo apt-get install liballegro4.2-dev
  for contrib/hbcairo lib:   $ sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
  for contrib/hbcups lib:    $ sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev
  for contrib/hbcurl lib:    $ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev OR
                             $ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  for contrib/hbfbird lib:   $ sudo apt-get install firebird2.1-dev OR
                             $ sudo apt-get install libfirebird2.0-dev
  for contrib/hbfimage lib:  $ sudo apt-get install libfreeimage-dev
  for contrib/hbgd lib:      $ sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev OR
                             $ sudo apt-get install libgd-xpm-dev
  for contrib/hbgs lib:      $ sudo apt-get install libgs-dev
  for contrib/hbmagic lib:   $ sudo apt-get install libmagic-dev
  for contrib/hbmysql lib:   $ sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
  for contrib/hbodbc lib:    $ sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev
  for contrib/hbpgsql lib:   $ sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
  for contrib/hbqt lib:      $ sudo apt-get install libqt5-dev

Optional, to override locally hosted sources:

  for bzip2 support:         $ sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
  for zlib support:          $ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
  for pcre (regex) support:  $ sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
  for contrib/hbsqlit3 lib:  $ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
  for contrib/hbexpat lib:   $ sudo apt-get install libexpat1-dev

Linux (.rpm based distros: openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva)

You'll need these base packages to build/package/test/use Harbour:

bash git gcc make glibc-devel rpm valgrind upx uncrustify

You'll need these packages to compile certain contribs and optional Harbour features:

  for gtcrs terminal lib:    ncurses-devel ncurses
  for gtsln terminal lib:    slang-devel slang
  for gtxwc terminal lib:    xorg-x11-devel
                             XFree86-devel
  for console mouse support: gpm-devel OR
                             gpm
  for contrib/gtalleg lib:   allegro-devel
  for contrib/hbcairo lib:   cairo-devel
  for contrib/hbcups lib:    libcups2-devel
  for contrib/hbcurl lib:    curl-devel
  for contrib/hbfbird lib:   firebird-devel
  for contrib/hbfimage lib:  freeimage-devel
  for contrib/hbgd lib:      gd-devel
  for contrib/hbmysql lib:   libmysqlclient-devel OR
                             mysql-devel OR
                             MySQL-devel
  for contrib/hbodbc lib:    unixodbc-devel OR
                             unixODBC-devel
  for contrib/hbpgsql lib:   postgresql-devel
  for contrib/hbqt lib:      qt5-devel

NOTES:

You can use following commands on different distros to install packages:

openSUSE: $ sudo zypper install Fedora, CentOS: $ sudo yum install Mandriva: $ sudo urpmi

Check this for more

On openSUSE, if you want to build 32-bit Harbour on a 64-bit host, install above packages with -32bit appended to their names, f.e. slang-devel-32bit

OpenSolaris

$ pkg install SUNWgit SUNWgcc SUNWgmake

FreeBSD

If you want to use the gtsln library instead of gtstd or gtcrs, then you also need to install libslang. If you installed the ports collection, then all you need to do to install libslang is to run the following commands, which may require that you run su first to get the correct permissions:

$ cd /usr/ports/devel/libslang
$ make
$ make install
$ make clean

Build Options

You can fine-tune Harbour builds with below listed environment variables. You can add most of these via the GNU Make command line also, using make VARNAME=value syntax. All of these settings are optional and all settings are case sensitive.

General

HB_INSTALL_PREFIX

Target root directory to install Harbour files. On *nix systems the default is set to /usr/local/ or $(PREFIX) if specified, and /usr/local/harbour-<arch>-<comp> for cross-builds. It's always set to ./pkg/<arch>/<comp> when HB_BUILD_PKG is set to yes. On non-*nix systems, you must set it to a valid directory when using install. Use absolute paths only. For a peace of mind, avoid using spaces and quotes in the name. You have to use path format native to your shell. F.e. to specify C:\dir on Windows, with Cygwin you should use /cygdrive/c/dir, with MSYS /c/dir.
HB_USER_PRGFLAGS User Harbour compiler options
HB_USER_CFLAGS User C compiler options
HB_USER_RESFLAGS User resource compiler options (on win, wce, os2)
HB_USER_LDFLAGS User linker options for executables
HB_USER_AFLAGS User linker options for libraries
HB_USER_DFLAGS User linker options for dynamic libraries

Set these only if autodetection doesn't suit your purpose:

HB_PLATFORM Override platform autodetection
HB_COMPILER Override C compiler autodetection

See this for possible values: Supported Platforms and C Compilers See also: HB_CC* settings.

Special

HB_BUILD_NAME=[<name>]

Create named build. This allows to keep multiple builds in parallel for any given platform/compiler. F.e. debug / release.

In current implementation it's appended to compiler directory name, so all filesystem/platform name rules and limits apply. (Back)slashes will be stripped from the name though.
HB_BUILD_PKG=yes

Create release package. Default: no Requires clean install in root source dir.
HB_BUILD_DYN=no

Create Harbour dynamic libraries. Default: yes
HB_BUILD_CONTRIB_DYN=no

Create contrib dynamic libraries. Default: yes
HB_BUILD_SHARED=yes

Create Harbour executables in shared mode. Default: yes when HB_INSTALL_PREFIX points to a *nix system location, otherwise no.
HB_BUILD_DEBUG=yes

Create a debug build. Default: no
HB_BUILD_STRIP=[all|bin|lib|no]

Strip symbols and debug information from binaries. Default: no
HB_BUILD_OPTIM=no

Enable C compiler optimizations. Default: yes
HB_BUILD_MODE=[cpp|c]

Change default build mode to C++ or C. Default: c, except for msvc* compilers, where it's cpp.
HB_BUILD_PARTS=[all|compiler|lib]

Build only specific part of Harbour.
HB_BUILD_NOGPLLIB=yes

Disable components dependent on GPL 3rd party code, to allow Harbour for commercial (closed source) projects. Default: no
HB_BUILD_3RDEXT=no

Enable autodetection of 3rd party components on default system locations. Default: yes
HB_BUILD_CONTRIBS=no [<l>]

Don't build any, or space separated <l> list of, contrib packages. Please note it won't prevent building packages which are dependencies of other – enabled – packages.
HB_BUILD_CONTRIBS=[<l>]

Build space separated <l> list of contrib libraries. Build all if left empty (default).
HB_BUILD_ADDONS=<l>

Build space separated list of additional .hbp projects.
HB_COMPILER_VER=[<ver>]

Set C compiler version. This is used with win/msvc, win/mingw and cygwin/gcc targets currently. <ver> format:
```
<15><0>[<0>] = <major><minor>[.<revision>]
```
Default: filled by compiler autodetection or empty
HB_USER_LIBS=[<list>]

Add space separated <list> of libs to link process. Lib names should be without extension and path. You only need this in special cases, like CodeGuard build with win/bcc.
HB_INSTALL_IMPLIB=no

Copy import libraries created for external .dll dependencies to the library install directory in install build phase. Default: yes For Windows/OS/2 targets only. Please note that this feature doesn't work with all possible binary distributions of 3rd party packages. We test only the official/mainstream ones. Also note that the generated implibs will require .dlls compatible with the ones used at build time.
HB_INSTALL_3RDDYN=yes

Copy dynamic libraries of external .dll dependencies to the dynamic library directory in install build phase. Default: no
HB_SRC_ROOTPATH=<dir>

When using GNU Make older than 3.81, you shall set the root directory of Harbour source tree as an absolute path. If not set, some build functionality may fail, like detection of 3rd party packages with locally hosted sources. With newer make versions, this variable is ignored.
HB_REBUILD_EXTERN=yes

Rebuild extern headers. This is typically used by developers after code modifications or before release. Default: no
HB_REBUILD_PARSER=yes

Rebuild language parser sources. Typically you only need this if your are Harbour core developer modifying grammar rules (.y). Requires GNU Bison 1.28 or upper in PATH. Default: no
HB_CCPATH=[<dir>/]

Used with non-*nix gcc family compilers (and sunpro) to specify path to compiler/linker/archive tool to help them run from *nix hosts as cross-build tools. Ending slash must be added.
HB_CCPREFIX=[<prefix>]

Used with gcc compiler family to specify compiler/linker/archive tool name prefix.
HB_CCSUFFIX=[<suffix>]

Used with gcc compiler family to specify compiler/linker tool name suffix – usually version number.

Cross-building

You can build Harbour for target platforms different than host platform. F.e. you can create Windows build on *nix systems, Linux builds on Windows systems, etc. It's also possible to build targets for different than host CPU architectures. F.e. you can create Windows 64-bit build on 32-bit Windows platform, or Linux x86-64 build on x86 hosts, or Linux MIPS build on x86 host, etc.

Point this envvar to the directory where native Harbour executables for your host platform can be found:

  HB_HOST_BIN=<harbour_native_build_dir>\bin

If you leave this value empty, the make system will try to autodetect it, so in practice all you have to do is to create a native build first (no install required), then create the cross-build. If you set this value manually, it may be useful to know that harbour, hbpp and hbmk2 executables are required for a cross-build process to succeed.

Build Examples

on Windows 32-bit hosts

NOTES:

All code below should be copied to batch files or typed at command line.

Naturally, you'll need to adapt dirs to valid ones on your system. Don't use spaces in dirs.

You can use additional clean, install or clean install make parameters depending on what you want to do.

To redirect all output to a log file, append this after the make command: > log.txt 2>&1

rem MSVC 2012
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2012 for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
win-make

rem MSVC 2010 and Windows SDK 7.1
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2010 (Professional or above) and Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
win-make

rem Windows SDK 7
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
win-make

rem Windows SDK 7 for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvarsx86_amd64.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 + SDK
set WindowsSDKDir=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2008
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 (Standard or above) for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 (Team Suite) for Windows IA-64 Itanium
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_ia64
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 for Windows CE ARM
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
set INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ce\include;%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2\PocketPC\Include\Armv4i
set LIB=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ce\lib\armv4i;%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2\PocketPC\Lib\ARMV4I
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\ce\bin\x86_arm;%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE;%PATH%
win-make

rem MSVC 2005
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2005 for Windows CE ARM
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
set INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\include;%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2\PocketPC\Include\Armv4i
set LIB=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\lib\armv4i;%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2\PocketPC\Lib\ARMV4I
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ce\bin\x86_arm;%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;%PATH%
win-make

rem MSVC .NET 2003 (untested)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MinGW GCC
set PATH=C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem MinGW GCC using MSYS shell
set PATH=C:\msys\1.0.11\bin;C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
sh -c make

rem MinGW GCC for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
set PATH=C:\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem MinGW GCC for Windows CE ARM
rem (requires Cygwin + preceding build for native target)
set PATH=C:\mingwce\opt\mingw32ce\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%
rem optional:
set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
win-make

rem Intel(R) C++
call "%ProgramFiles%\Intel\Compiler\C++\10.1.014\IA32\Bin\iclvars.bat"
win-make

rem Intel(R) C++ for Windows IA-64 Itanium
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles%\Intel\Compiler\C++\10.1.025\Itanium\Bin\iclvars.bat"
win-make

rem Borland C++ 5.5.1
set PATH=C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem Pelles C
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Bin;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include\Win;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib\Win;%LIB%
win-make

rem Pelles C for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Bin;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include\Win;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib\Win64;%LIB%
win-make

rem Pelles C for Windows CE ARM
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Bin;%PATH%
set INCLUDE=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include\WinCE;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Include;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib;%ProgramFiles%\PellesC\Lib\WinCE;%LIB%
win-make

rem Delorie GNU C for MS-DOS (on Intel 32-bit Windows hosts only)
set DJGPP=C:\djgpp\djgpp.env
set PATH=C:\djgpp\bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINNT;%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H;%WATCOM%\H\NT
win-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++ for MS-DOS
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINNT;%PATH%
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H
win-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++ for OS/2
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINNT;%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
SET BEGINLIBPATH=%WATCOM%\BINP\DLL
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H;%WATCOM%\H\OS2
win-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++ for Linux
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINNT;%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\LH
win-make

rem VxWorks GCC x86
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
wrenv -p vxworks-6.8
set HB_COMPILER=gcc
win-make

rem VxWorks GCC ARM
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
wrenv -p vxworks-6.8
set HB_COMPILER=gcc
set HB_CPU=arm
set HB_BUILD_NAME=arm
win-make

rem VxWorks Wind River Compiler x86
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
wrenv -p vxworks-6.8
set HB_COMPILER=diab
win-make

rem Symbian OS
rem (requires preceding build for Windows target)
set PATH=C:\Symbian\CSL Arm Toolchain\bin;%PATH%
set HB_PLATFORM=symbian
set HB_COMPILER=gcc
set HB_CCPREFIX=arm-none-symbianelf-
set HB_USER_CFLAGS=-IC:\Symbian\SDK\S60\devices\S60_5th_Edition_SDK_v1.0\epoc32\include\stdapis -IC:\Symbian\SDK\S60\devices\S60_5th_Edition_SDK_v1.0\epoc32\include -D__GCC32__ -D__SYMBIAN32__
win-make

rem Cygwin GCC using Cygwin shell
set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin
sh -c make

rem Add these *before* above sample scripts to configure 3rd party dependencies.
rem When using MSYS or Cygwin shell you'll have to use forward slashes and
rem also Cygwin drive notation for Cygwin.
set HB_WITH_ADS=C:\ads\acesdk
set HB_WITH_ALLEGRO=C:\allegro\include
set HB_WITH_BLAT=C:\blat\full\source
set HB_WITH_CAIRO=C:\cairo\include\cairo
set HB_WITH_CURL=C:\curl\include
set HB_WITH_FIREBIRD=C:\Firebird\include
set HB_WITH_FREEIMAGE=C:\FreeImage\Dist
set HB_WITH_GD=C:\gd\include
set HB_WITH_MYSQL=C:\mysql\include
set HB_WITH_OCILIB=C:\ocilib\include
set HB_WITH_OPENSSL=C:\openssl\inc32
set HB_WITH_PGSQL=C:\pgsql\include
set HB_WITH_QT=C:\Qt\include

on Windows x86-64 (64-bit) hosts

Same as 32-bit Windows, but, you'll have to change %ProgramFiles% to %ProgramFiles(x86)% for 32-bit and mixed tools, you can build for both x86 and x64 without building a native target first, and potential differences with some compilers in using native binaries if they are available.

rem MinGW GCC for Windows x86-64
set PATH=C:\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem MSVC 2012 for Windows x86
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2012 for Windows x86-64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
win-make

rem MSVC 2010 and Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows x86
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2010 (Professional or above) and Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows x86-64
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
win-make

rem Windows SDK 7 for Windows x86
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
win-make

rem Windows SDK 7 for Windows x86-64
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars64.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 for Windows x86
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 (Standard or above) for Windows x86-64
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
win-make

rem MSVC 2008 (Team Suite) for Windows IA-64 Itanium
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_ia64
win-make

rem MSVC 2022 targeting ARM64
rem (requires preceding build for native target)
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 17.10\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64_arm64
win-make

rem Clang distributed by Visual Studio
set PATH="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 17.10\BuildTools\VC\Tools\Llvm\x64\bin";%PATH%
win-make

rem Clang from winlibs.com
set PATH=C:\winlibs\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
set HB_COMPILER=clang
win-make

rem Clang x86_64 distributed by MSYS2 from cmd
set PATH=C:\msys64\clang64\bin;%PATH%
win-make

on Windows ARM64 hosts

rem MSVC 2022 for ARM64
call "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 17.10\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" arm64
rem set HB_COMPILER=msvcarm64 (may be needed if Clang is also in resulting PATH)
win-make

rem Clang/MS ARM64
set PATH=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 17.10\BuildTools\VC\Tools\Llvm\ARM64\bin;%PATH%
win-make

rem Clang/MSYS ARM64 called from cmd
set PATH=C:\msys64\clangarm64\bin;%PATH%
win-make

on MS-DOS hosts

rem Delorie GNU C
set DJGPP=C:\djgpp\djgpp.env
set PATH=C:\djgpp\bin;%PATH%
dos-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H
dos-make

rem Add these *before* above sample scripts to configure 3rd party dependencies.
rem You have to use 8.3 path notation.
set HB_WITH_ALLEGRO=C:\ALLEGR~1.2\include
set HB_WITH_FIREBIRD=C:\FIREBI~1.4\include
set HB_WITH_GD=C:\GD-20~1.34\include
set HB_WITH_MYSQL=C:\MYSQL-~1.67\include
set HB_WITH_PGSQL=C:\PGSQL-~1.3\include
set HB_WITH_WATT=C:\WATT\inc

on OS/2 hosts

rem GCC 3.3.4 and GCC 3.3.5
C:\usr\bin\gccenv.cmd
os2-make

rem GCC 4.x
C:\usr\local433\gcc440.cmd
set HB_COMPILER=gccomf
os2-make

rem Open Watcom C/C++
SET WATCOM=C:\watcom
SET PATH=%WATCOM%\BINP;%WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
SET BEGINLIBPATH=%WATCOM%\BINP\DLL
SET EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
SET INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H;%WATCOM%\H\OS2
SET HELP=%WATCOM%\BINP\HELP;%HELP%
SET BOOKSHELF=%WATCOM%\BINP\HELP;%BOOKSHELF%
os2-make

on Linux hosts

# Open Watcom C/C++ for OS/2
# (requires preceding build for Linux target)
export WATCOM="/opt/lng/watcom"
export INCLUDE="${WATCOM}/h:${WATCOM}/h/os2"
export PATH="${WATCOM}/binl:$PATH"
export HB_BUILD_3RDEXT=no
make "$@"

# Borland C++ 5.5.1
export PATH=~/.wine/drive_c/Borland/BCC55/Bin:$PATH
export HB_PLATFORM=win
export HB_COMPILER=bcc
export HB_BUILD_3RDEXT=no
make

on Darwin (OS X) hosts

# To create "Universal" binaries, compatible with pre-Snow Leopard PowerPC and Intel systems
export HB_USER_LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch ppc"
export HB_USER_CFLAGS="$HB_USER_LDFLAGS"
export HB_COMPILER=gcc
make

on *nix hosts in general

[g]make

# MinGW GCC for Windows x86
[g]make HB_PLATFORM=win

# MinGW GCC for Windows CE ARM
[g]make HB_PLATFORM=wce

Build Your Own Harbour App

For all platforms you'll need two things:

Harbour binaries

Either a Harbour binary distribution or a local Harbour build will be okay. If you're reading this text, it's very likely you have one of these already.
Supported ANSI C compiler

Your compiler of choice has to be placed in the PATH – and configured appropriately according to instructions. If you use official Harbour binary distribution on Windows, you already have MinGW compiler embedded in the installation, which will automatically be used, so you don't have to make any extra steps here.

Use hbmk2 to build your app from source. It's recommended to put it in the PATH (f.e. by using set PATH=C:\harbour\bin;%PATH% on Windows).

See hbmk2 documentation, with examples.

Debugging Options

Tracing

Build Harbour with:

HB_BUILD_DEBUG=yes

Run app with:

HB_TR_LEVEL=debug
# to override default stderr output:
HB_TR_OUTPUT=<filename>
# to enable additional system specific logging output,
# OutputDebugString() on Windows, syslog() on *nix systems:
HB_TR_SYSOUT=yes

Memory statistics/tracking

Build Harbour with:

HB_USER_CFLAGS=-DHB_FM_STATISTICS

Valgrind (on linux and darwin targets)

Build Harbour with:

HB_BUILD_DEBUG=yes

Build app with:

$ hbmk2 myapp -debug

Run app with:

$ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --num-callers=16 -v ./myapp 2> myapp.log

CodeGuard (on win/bcc target only)

Build Harbour with:

HB_USER_CFLAGS=-vG
HB_USER_LIBS=cg32

Harbour Debugger

Build app with:

$ hbmk2 myapp -b -run

or run script with:

$ hbrun myapp --hb:debug

Press <Alt+D> in the app.

Troubleshooting

Always evaluate these points before reporting an issue on the developers' mailing list.

Make sure to have carefully read this document.
Make sure to do a make clean before doing a build after refreshing the sources.
If that still fails, make sure to install fresh source tree in a new local directory and start over. See How to Get for instructions to get the source. In case you installed Harbour into system locations (this used to be the case with some *nix users, albeit mostly completely unnecessarily or wrongly - f.e. for unstable versions), you will need to remember cleaning off Harbour from all of these locations, too. Advice: Never install unstable Harbour versions to system locations.
If you are doing a cross-build, make sure to have rebuilt the native Harbour executables for your host platform. See HB_HOST_BIN build messages to find their location.
Keep your PATH clean from old, mixed compiler tools or other Harbour versions when building Harbour. The surest way to achieve this is to leave only C compiler directory in PATH:
```
set PATH=C:\<c_compiler_bin_dir>
```
If you use Harbour official binary distro on Windows, even above is unnecessary and not recommended.
Remove all old, unnecessary environment variables (for both Harbour and C compiler) from your environment. Also remove any custom settings for your C compiler. Use only those documented in this file. Follows some environment variable settings which are commonly believed by users to be useful, but which in reality are either not needed or not even used by Harbour build process and hbmk2.
Remove any Harbour build settings documented in Build Options.
Try to do no or only small modifications at once to examples included in Build Examples. If it doesn't work, fall back to documented examples as is.
If everything fails and you are to report a build problem to Harbour developers, make sure to include your OS version/language/CPU architecture, Harbour revision, C compiler name/release and version, environment variables and verbose log output containing both stderr and stdout in one combined stream (use make > log.txt 2>&1). Enable verbose mode using HB_BUILD_VERBOSE=yes. Complete log output is rarely necessary, but always make sure to include the top of the output (lines starting with !) and the area where problematic behavior occurred first. Make sure to not only include a link failure or a make tool failure, as it's most of the time not enough information. Compress your log using zip if it is larger than 25KB. (use the extension .zip) With these, you have much better chance to get useful or any response.
Do not alter the directory layout and files in Harbour and 3rd party packages.
If you are to report a build problem with a Harbour application, all of the above points apply, plus make sure to use -trace command line option when running hbmk2 and redirect the result to a file (see above how). It's good idea to first remove all manual references to Harbour core components from makefiles and custom environment. F.e. it's commom mistake to add C compiler header and/or lib dirs, Harbour core header and/or lib dirs, built-in constants to makefiles or environment. No such thing is necessary as all of these are automatically handled by hbmk2. IOW start simple and don't be overbusy with fine-tuning your configuration. If you need to, the problem is most probably elsewhere. It's also good idea to try with Harbour nightly binary or official stable release first.
If you are to report a problem with Harbour itself, always provide self-contained, minimal source code example. Do not use xhb contrib library, or any 3rd party Harbour libraries. The example shall reproduce the problem using official stable or nightly Harbour build. Do not post executables and other binary files. If your source contains non-ASCII (national, accented, special) chars, clearly mark the codepage/encoding used (UTF-8 recommended) and attach the files compressed with zip. (use the extension .zip)
See more on self-contained examples: http://sscce.org/
If your example involves compatibility components, make sure to test it against original implementation (for example, test legacy Clipper core language elements against real CA-Clipper 5.2e or 5.3b, or hbct functions against CT3 library, etc)

Supported Platforms and C Compilers

You can override target platform autodetection with these `HB_PLATFORM` values:

linux - Linux
darwin - OS X
bsd - FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD / DragonFly BSD / *BSD
beos - BeOS / Haiku
hpux - HP-UX
sunos - Sun Solaris / OpenSolaris
qnx - QNX
android - Android
vxworks - VxWorks
symbian - Symbian OS (experimental)
minix - Minix 3 (tested on 3.2.1; earlier releases won't work)
aix - IBM AIX
win - MS Windows (all flavors) (see External links for Win9x requirements)
wce - MS Windows CE
dos - MS-DOS (32-bit protected mode only) (MS-DOS compatible systems also work, like dosemu)
os2 - OS/2 Warp 4 / eComStation

You can override C compiler autodetection with these `HB_COMPILER` values:

linux

gcc - GNU C
clang - Clang
watcom - Open Watcom C/C++
icc - Intel(R) C/C++
sunpro - Sun Studio C/C++
open64 - Open64 C/C++

darwin

gcc - GNU C
clang - Clang
icc - Intel(R) C/C++

bsd

gcc - GNU C
clang - Clang
pcc - Portable C Compiler (experimental)

hpux

gcc - GNU C

beos

gcc - GNU C

qnx

gcc - GNU C

android

gcc - GNU C x86
gccarm - GNU C ARM

vxworks

gcc - GNU C
diab - Wind River Compiler

symbian

gcc - GNU C

minix

clang - Clang
gcc - GNU C

aix

gcc - GNU C

cygwin

gcc - GNU C

sunos

gcc - GNU C
sunpro - Sun Studio C/C++

win

mingw - MinGW GNU C 3.4.2 and above
mingw64 - MinGW GNU C x86-64
msvc - Microsoft Visual C++
msvc64 - Microsoft Visual C++ x86-64
msvcarm - Microsoft Visual C++ ARM
msvcarm64 - Microsoft Visual C++ ARM64
msvcia64 - Microsoft Visual C++ IA-64 (Itanium)
clang - Clang (various flavours supported)

win (partial support, some features may be missing)

watcom - Open Watcom C/C++
bcc - Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero C++ 4.x and above
bcc64 - Embarcadero C++ 6.5 and above
icc - Intel(R) C/C++
iccia64 - Intel(R) C/C++ IA-64 (Itanium)
pocc - Pelles C 4.5 and above
pocc64 - Pelles C x86-64 5.0 and above
xcc - Pelles C for xhb

wce

mingw - MinGW GNU C x86
mingwarm - MinGW GNU C ARM (CEGCC 0.55 and above)
msvcarm - Microsoft Visual C++ ARM
poccarm - Pelles C ARM 5.0 and above

dos

djgpp - Delorie GNU C
watcom - Open Watcom C/C++

os2

gcc - EMX GNU C 3.3.5 or lower
gccomf - EMX GNU C 3.3.5 or upper
watcom - Open Watcom C/C++

Platform Matrix

	host platform	target platform/compiler	target cpu

   | win      | win/bcc           | x86
   | win      | win/bcc64         | x86-64
   | win      | win/clang         | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64, arm64)
   | win      | win/gcc           | x86
   | win      | win/global        | x86
   | win      | win/icc           | x86
   | win      | win/icc64         | x86-64 (not supported yet)
   | win      | win/iccia64       | ia64
   | win      | win/mingw         | x86
   | win      | win/mingw64       | x86-64
   | win      | win/msvc          | x86
   | win      | win/msvc64        | x86-64
   | win      | win/msvcarm       | arm
   | win      | win/msvcarm64     | arm64
   | win      | win/msvcia64      | ia64
   | win      | win/pocc          | x86
   | win      | win/pocc64        | x86-64
   | win      | win/watcom        | x86
   | win      | win/xcc           | x86
 x | win      | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | win      | wce/mingw         | x86   (not fully supported yet)
 x | win      | wce/poccarm       | arm
 x | win      | wce/msvcarm       | arm
 x | win      | wce/msvcmips      | mips  (not supported yet)
 x | win      | wce/msvcsh        | sh    (not supported yet)
 x | win      | wce/msvc          | x86   (not supported yet)
 x | win      | dos/djgpp         | x86   (on Windows x86 hosts only)
 x | win      | dos/watcom        | x86
 x | win      | os2/watcom        | x86
 x | win      | linux/watcom      | x86
 x | win      | android/gcc       | x86
 x | win      | android/gccarm    | arm
 x | win      | vxworks/gcc       | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc)
 x | win      | vxworks/diab      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc, sparc)
 x | win      | symbian/gcc       | arm
 x | win      | cygwin/gcc        | x86
   | dos      | dos/djgpp         | x86
   | dos      | dos/watcom        | x86
 x | dos      | win/watcom        | x86
 x | dos      | os2/watcom        | x86
 x | dos      | linux/watcom      | x86
   | os2      | os2/gcc           | x86
   | os2      | os2/watcom        | x86
 x | os2      | win/watcom        | x86
 x | os2      | dos/watcom        | x86
 x | os2      | linux/watcom      | x86
   | linux    | linux/gcc         | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | linux    | linux/clang       | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | linux    | linux/icc         | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64, ia64)
   | linux    | linux/sunpro      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64)
   | linux    | linux/open64      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86-64, ia64, ...)
 x | linux    | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | linux    | wce/mingw         | x86
 x | linux    | win/mingw         | x86
 x | linux    | win/mingw64       | x86-64
 x | linux    | win/watcom        | x86
 x | linux    | win/bcc           | x86 (requires WINE)
 x | linux    | win/bcc64         | x86-64 (requires WINE)
 x | linux    | os2/watcom        | x86
 x | linux    | dos/watcom        | x86
 x | linux    | dos/djgpp         | x86
 x | linux    | android/gcc       | x86
 x | linux    | android/gccarm    | arm
 x | linux    | vxworks/gcc       | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc)
 x | linux    | vxworks/diab      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc, sparc)
   | bsd      | bsd/gcc           | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | bsd      | bsd/clang         | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | bsd      | bsd/pcc           | (experimental)
 x | bsd      | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | bsd      | wce/mingw         | x86
 x | bsd      | win/mingw         | x86
 x | bsd      | dos/djgpp         | x86
   | darwin   | darwin/clang      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64, unibin)
   | darwin   | darwin/gcc        | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64, ppc, ppc64, unibin)
   | darwin   | darwin/icc        | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64)
 x | darwin   | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | darwin   | wce/mingw         | x86
 x | darwin   | win/mingw         | x86
 x | darwin   | win/mingw64       | x86-64
 x | darwin   | dos/djgpp         | x86
 x | darwin   | android/gcc       | x86
 x | darwin   | android/gccarm    | arm
   | hpux     | hpux/gcc          | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | qnx      | qnx/gcc           | (CPU cross-builds possible - no tested)
   | beos     | beos/gcc          | x86
 x | hpux     | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | hpux     | wce/mingw         | x86
 x | hpux     | win/mingw         | x86
 x | hpux     | dos/djgpp         | x86
   | minix    | minix/clang       | x86
   | minix    | minix/gcc         | x86
   | aix      | aix/gcc           | (CPU cross-builds possible: ppc, ppc64)
   | sunos    | sunos/gcc         | (CPU cross-builds possible)
   | sunos    | sunos/sunpro      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, x86-64, sparc32, sparc64)
 x | sunos    | wce/mingwarm      | arm
 x | sunos    | wce/mingw         | x86
 x | sunos    | win/mingw         | x86
 x | sunos    | dos/djgpp         | x86
 x | sunos    | vxworks/gcc       | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc)
 x | sunos    | vxworks/diab      | (CPU cross-builds possible: x86, arm, mips, ppc, sparc)

Leading x marks cross-platform scenarios.

Supported shells per host platforms:

win / NT shell (cmd.exe)
win / POSIX shell (MSYS or Cygwin sh.exe)
win / MS-DOS shell (command.com)
dos / MS-DOS shell (command.com)
dos / POSIX shell (bash.exe)
os/2 / OS/2 shell (cmd.exe)
os/2 / POSIX shell (bash.exe)
*nix / POSIX shell

External links

C/C++ Compilers/Shells:
- MinGW/MinGW-64 [win, *nix, free, open-source]
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/ (unofficial, recommended)
  - http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/ (unofficial) [NOTE: 4.5.1 is broken, 4.5.2, 4.6.1 x86 OK, for x64 use the official release]
  - http://www.mingw.org/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ (official 32-bit, MSYS home, broken as of 4.5.0-1)
  - http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/ (official 64-bit, MSYS home)
  - http://nuwen.net/mingw.html (unofficial)
- MinGW CEGCC [win, *nix, free, open-source]
  - http://cegcc.sourceforge.net/
- Cygwin [win, free, open-source]
  - http://www.cygwin.com/
- OS/2 GCC [os2, free, open-source]
  - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/
  - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/GCC-3.3.5-csd3.zip
  - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.exe
  - http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=gcc
  - http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=gcc44
  - http://download.smedley.info/gcc-4.4.5-os2-20101004.zip
  - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76425158/gcc-4.5.4-os2-20130803.zip
- DJGPP [dos, *nix, free, open-source]
  - http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
- Open Watcom [win, dos, os2, linux, free, open-source]
  - http://www.openwatcom.org/
- Xcode / Command Line Tools for Xcode [darwin, free, hybrid-source]
  - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835
  - http://developer.apple.com/downloads/
- MS Windows SDK [win, free, closed-source]
  - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb980924.aspx (7.0 and above contains compilers for x86, x86_64 and IA-64)
- MS Windows Mobile SDK [wce, free]
  - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=83A52AF2-F524-4EC5-9155-717CBE5D25ED
- MS Visual Studio Express [win, free, closed-source]
  - http://www.microsoft.com/express/
- MS Visual Studio [win, commercial, closed-source]
  - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/
- Pelles C [win, wce, free, closed-source]
  - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
- Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero Compiler [win, free, closed-source]
  - https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/c_builder
- Intel Compiler [win, linux, darwin, commercial, closed-source]
  - http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers/
Libraries:
- HB_WITH_ADS - Advantage Client Engine API [win, linux, free, closed-source]
  - https://devzone.advantagedatabase.com/dz/content.aspx?key=20&Release=19&Product=5
- HB_WITH_ALLEGRO - Allegro (GUI) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://alleg.sourceforge.net/
- HB_WITH_BLAT - Blat (SMTP client) [win, free, open-source]
  - https://www.blat.net/
- HB_WITH_BZIP2 - libbzip2 [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.bzip.org/
- HB_WITH_CAIRO - Cairo [multiplatform, open-source]
  - https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php
    GTK for Windows has a side effect of including a build of Cairo libs. After installation look for: libcairo-.dll, libpng.dll, zlib*.dll
- HB_WITH_CUPS - libcups (printing) [*nix, free, open-source]
  - https://www.cups.org/
- HB_WITH_CURL - libcurl (file transfer) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://curl.haxx.se/
- HB_WITH_EXPAT - Expat (XML parser) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://expat.sourceforge.net/
- HB_WITH_FIREBIRD - firebird SQL [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.firebirdsql.org/
- HB_WITH_FREEIMAGE - FreeImage [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
- HB_WITH_GD - GD Graphics Library [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.libgd.org/
- HB_WITH_GS - Ghostscript [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.ghostscript.com/
  - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
- HB_WITH_JPEG - jpeglib [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.ijg.org/
- HB_WITH_LIBHARU - libharu (PDF creation) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://libharu.org/
- HB_WITH_LIBMAGIC - libmagic, file recognition [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
- HB_WITH_LZF - lzf library (RT data compression) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://liblzf.plan9.de/
- HB_WITH_MINILZO - miniLZO library (RT data compression) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
- HB_WITH_MINIZIP - minizip library [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
- HB_WITH_MXML - miniXML library (small XML library) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.msweet.org/mxml/
- HB_WITH_MYSQL - MySQL [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
- HB_WITH_OCILIB - OCILIB (C Driver for Oracle) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://vrogier.github.io/ocilib/
  - https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/instant-client/overview/index.html
- HB_WITH_OPENSSL - OpenSSL [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.openssl.org/
  - https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries
  - https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Main_Page
- HB_WITH_PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.pcre.org/
- HB_WITH_PGSQL - PostgreSQL [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.postgresql.org/
- HB_WITH_PNG - libpng [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- HB_WITH_QT - QT (GUI) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://qt-project.org/
  - https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/
- HB_WITH_SQLITE3 - sqlite3 [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.sqlite.org/
- HB_WITH_TINYMT - TinyMT (Mersenne Twister) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/TINYMT/
- HB_WITH_WATT - Watt-32 (TCP/IP sockets) [dos, free, open-source]
  - http://www.watt-32.net/
- HB_WITH_ZLIB - zlib [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - https://www.zlib.net/
- HB_WITH_XDIFF - libxdiff (file differences/patches) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff-lib.html
- Windows 95 Winsock2 [win, free, closed-source]
  - Information: Microsoft KB182108 "Availability of Windows Sockets 2.0 for Windows 95"
  - Search for w95ws2setup.exe (required for Win95 support to run applications built with Harbour)
- Windows UNICOWS .dll [win, free, closed-source]
  - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14851 (required for Win9x/ME support to run applications built with Harbour in UNICODE mode)
- Windows UNICOWS runtime/import library [win, free, open-source]
  - http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/ (required for Win9x/ME support at application built-time)
Tools:
- Git (1.7 or upper) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://git-scm.com/
  - https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git (Windows binaries)
- GitHub Client [multiplatform, free]
  - http://windows.github.com/
  - http://mac.github.com/
- GNU Bison (grammer paser generator) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - Windows binary:
    - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm (not verified with current Harbour version)
- Valgrind (dynamic executable analysis tool) [linux, darwin-x86, free, open-source]
  - http://valgrind.org/
- ack (programmer grep) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://beyondgrep.com/
- Uncrustify (source formatter) [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/
- UPX (executable compressor) [win, dos, *nix, free, open-source]
  - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
- Nullsoft Installer [win, free, open-source]
  - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
- 7-Zip [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.7-zip.org/
- Info-ZIP [multiplatform, free, open-source]
  - http://www.info-zip.org/
- bzip2 [multiplatform, free, open-source] Windows binary: * http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
- Chocolatey (Windows package manager) [free, open-source]
  - http://chocolatey.org/
- GNU Make
  
  Windows binary + source:
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/make/
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/make/make-3.82-mingw32/make-3.82-5-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma/download
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/make/make-3.82-mingw32/make-3.82-5-mingw32-src.tar.lzma/download
  - cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/make co make
    (included in Harbour as win-make.exe)
  MS-DOS binary + source:
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/mak381b.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/mak381s.zip
    (included in Harbour as dos-make.exe)
  OS/2 binary + source (3.81r3 or upper):
  - ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/util/make-3.81-r3-bin-static.zip
  - ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/util/
    (included in Harbour as os2-make.exe)
- GNU core utils (mkdir, rm, cp, echo)
  
  MS-DOS binary + source:
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/fil41b.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/fil41s.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/shl2011b.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/shtl208s.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/djdev203.zip
  - ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2/djlsr203.zip
    (included in Harbour as dosmkdir.exe, dosrm.exe, doscp.exe, dosecho.exe)
  OS/2 binary:
  - http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=build-environment
  - http://download.smedley.info/buildenv_20071022.zip
    (included in Harbour as os2mkdir.exe, os2rm.exe, os2cp.exe)
Documentation:
- Netiquette Guidelines
- Setting up Git
- Git book [free]
- Git crash course for Subversion users
- Using gettext (.po files)
  - http://help.transifex.com/features/formats.html#po-files
  - http://www.heiner-eichmann.de/autotools/using_gettext.html

Harbour Links

Homepage
Users' Mailing List (English language)
Development Mailing List (English language)
Source code
Localization
Issues
Documents:
- hbmk2 documentation
- hbrun documentation
- ChangeLog
- Comparing Harbour to xHarbour
- CA-Cl*pper 5.3 online documentation
- Harbour online documentation
- Harbour internal documents
- Wikipedia

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Makefile		Makefile
README.md		README.md
dos-make.exe		dos-make.exe
os2-make.exe		os2-make.exe
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Welcome to Harbour

Table of Content

Guarantees and Liability

How to Participate

How to Get

Stable versions

Harbour stable binary download

Harbour stable source download

Unstable versions

Harbour live source repository

Harbour unstable sources

Harbour unstable binaries (updated once a day from live source repository)

Follow commits using any of these facilities

How to Build

on Windows hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows CE, MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux)

on Windows hosts with POSIX shells (MSYS/Cygwin)

on MS-DOS hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, OS/2, Linux)

on OS/2 hosts (possible cross-build targets: MS-DOS, OS/2, Linux)

on Linux hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS, OS/2)

on Darwin (OS X) hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS)

on FreeBSD hosts

on Minix hosts

on other *nix hosts (possible cross-build targets: Windows, Windows CE, MS-DOS)

How to Do a Partial Build

How to Create Distributable Packages

Source .tgz on *nix

Binary .tgz on *nix

Binary .deb on Linux

Binary .rpm on Linux

Binary .rpm on Linux (cross-builds)

for Windows:

for Windows CE:

Binary .zip and .exe on Windows for all targets (except Linux)

Binary .zip on MS-DOS for all targets (except Linux)

Unified .7z and .exe installer for Windows

How to Enable Optional Components

Darwin (OS X)

Linux (generic)

For contrib/rddads lib:

For contrib/hbhpdf lib, if you don't wish to use locally hosted version:

Linux (.deb based distros: Debian, Ubuntu)

Linux (.rpm based distros: openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Mandriva)

OpenSolaris

FreeBSD

Build Options

General

Special

Cross-building

Build Examples

on Windows 32-bit hosts

on Windows x86-64 (64-bit) hosts

on Windows ARM64 hosts

on MS-DOS hosts

on OS/2 hosts

on Linux hosts

on Darwin (OS X) hosts

on *nix hosts in general

Build Your Own Harbour App

Debugging Options

Tracing

Memory statistics/tracking

Valgrind (on linux and darwin targets)

CodeGuard (on win/bcc target only)

Harbour Debugger

Troubleshooting

Supported Platforms and C Compilers

You can override target platform autodetection with these HB_PLATFORM values:

You can override C compiler autodetection with these HB_COMPILER values:

linux

darwin

bsd

hpux

beos

qnx

You can override target platform autodetection with these `HB_PLATFORM` values:

You can override C compiler autodetection with these `HB_COMPILER` values:

Packages