A cross-platform lightweight Tool in Freebasic

CLI tool to download a PDF directly from ecoDMS REST Web API. libcurl is already included.

it’s small, it’s fast, has no dependencies nor needs a bloaty runtime (58 KB on Windows, 70 KB on Linux). Just copy and paste and run.

In Python I would need 25 MB on Windows (Redist-Package with Runtime). I guess a litle bit less in Xojo, but still bloaty.

Public Repo and Readme on Codeberg:

I love the Simplicity, Speed and Freedom in Freebasic…

It’s worth to mention that I do crosscompiling Windows Executables on Linux with gcc & mingw. Even basic testing and debugging is done in Wine on Linux. Only for my final tests I start up Windows VM.

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