Harbour • xBasians.org

🚢 About Harbour

Intro

Harbour is a 100 % free, multi-platform xBase language compiler and development environment. It converts Clipper / xBase code into highly optimized C and then compiles it with GCC/Clang/MSVC.

Cross-platform (Win, Linux, macOS, *BSD)
Active community & nightly builds
Full Clipper compatibility + modern extensions
Extensive contrib libraries (HBQt, GTWVW, HMG, HWGUI…)

⚡ Quick install

30-sec start

# 1) prerequisites (Ubuntu example)
sudo apt install build-essential git

# 2) clone
git clone https://github.com/harbour/core.git $XBASE_WORKSPACE/harbour-core
cd $XBASE_WORKSPACE/harbour-core

# 3) build
make

After build add bin folder to PATH.

Download harbour-x.y.z-win64.zip from GitHub Releases
Unpack to %XBASE_WORKSPACE%\harbour
Add %XBASE_WORKSPACE%\harbour\bin to PATH

macOS (Homebrew):
```
brew install harbour
```
Arch AUR:
```
yay -S harbour-core-git
```
openSUSE:
```
sudo zypper install harbour
```

👋 Hello World

30 s

// hello.prg
PROCEDURE Main()
   ? "Hello from Harbour running on", OS()
   WAIT
RETURN

Compile & run:

hbmk2 hello.prg -run

🔗 Docs & Links

Resources

Official docs

HTML + CHM reference

GitHub repo

Issues, Discussions, Actions

HBQt

Qt-based GUI extensions

xPM packages

Dependency manager for Harbour

🛠️ Editors & IDEs

Productivity

VS Code – install extension Harbour + C/C++ IntelliSense
Geany – lightweight, ships Harbour build menu
JetBrains CLion – open CMakeLists.txt generated by hbmk2 -cmake
Vim/Neovim – harbour.vim syntax file