Information for hacking on FreeBASIC
This area of the Wiki is for documenting everything about the compiler and the runtime libraries. It is, however, incomplete. If you find that information provided here does not match what the source is doing then please update the relevant pages here. New pages and articles may be added freely, provided they help understanding what's going on inside FB.

Developing FreeBASIC Itself Compiling a Development Version of FreeBASIC Running the FreeBASIC test suite Normal vs. Standalone Notes on the creation of FB releases C Header Translation Tutorial Header Style Guidelines External Libraries Index (header status) Compiler internals Quick overview of all modules The objinfo feature Memory management FreeBASIC Grammar Lexer & preprocessor Parser & compiler (fb, parser, symb, rtl) Purpose Top level parsing process Symbols Representation of data types SELECT CASE Profiling FB programs Structure Packing/Field Alignment Run-time (rtlib) and Graphics (gfxlib2) Libraries Keyboard input: inkey(), multikey(), etc. Overview of drivers (backends) Pixel formats