Setting Up RCBasic

Installing RCBasic Studio

To get started, extract the RCBasic archive to any folder and launch RCBasic Studio. No additional installation steps are required — you are ready to start coding immediately.

Using RCBasic from the Command Line

RCBasic is automatically added to PATH on Linux during installation. On Windows you must add the appropriate folder to your PATH manually:

32-bit systems: rcbasic/rcbasic_32
64-bit systems: rcbasic/rcbasic_64

Compiling a program

Pass a .bas source file to rcbasic_build4 to produce a .cbc bytecode file:

rcbasic_build4 myprogram.bas

Running a compiled program

Pass the resulting .cbc file to rcbasic4:

rcbasic4 myprogram.cbc

Checking the version

Both tools accept a --version flag:

rcbasic_build4 --version
rcbasic4 --version

Porting to Other Platforms

From inside RCBasic Studio:

Open the menu Tools → Distribute.
Select the target platforms.
Click MAKE APP.

RCBasic will package your project for each selected platform automatically.

Level Editors

Two level editors are bundled with RCBasic:

Editor	Dimension	How to launch
Nirvana	2D	Linux: run the `nirvana` start-up script in the main folder. Windows: open `Nirvana/Nirvana.exe`.
Serenity	3D	Linux: run the `serenity` start-up script in the main folder. Windows: open `Serenity/Serenity.exe`.