Today I’ve decided to try out FreeBasic for a problem of my customer. The software supplier of his ERP software uses a bunch of services which crashes from time to time. Quite annoying and already topic of an ongoing discussion though the problem exists and the company with 50 employees needs a quick workaround.
So I’ve decided to write a monitoring windows service. Basically it checks the ERP windows services and restarts them automatically when not alive anymore. The information which services to be monitored is coming from a text file.
An existing skeleton (link) in the German Freebasic Community was unfortunately quite incomplete and only in 32Bit. So I needed a little bit time to translate and adjust existing C code from MSDN to Freebasic.
The result surprised me. The size of the 64Bit Single-Executable was just 56 KB! Without any dependencies. When installed as Windows-Service it needs only 524 KB in Memory.
Today Freebasic helped me to create a quick and small workaround for my customer. It is really awesome and with the power of gcc pretty fast and small in both, size and ressource consumption. I will try out GTK bindings in Linux and Windows next.
So far 1000% better than Xojo with its limitations and disgusting bugs.
