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Overview

Harbour is the open/free software implementation of a cross-platform, multi-threading, object-oriented, scriptable programming language, backwards compatible with xBase languages. Harbour consists of a compiler and runtime libraries with multiple UI, database and I/O backends, its own build system and a collection of libraries and bindings for popular APIs. With Harbour, you can build apps running on GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, *BSD, *nix, and more. Learn more

This Fork

This fork contains all mainline updates as well as local fixes, additions, extra contribs, better tooling and maintenance. Learn more

Why use it?

  • Harbour is free software, 100% compatible with Clipper compilers.
  • Harbour is proven to be stable, robust and efficient.
  • Harbour is portable across multiple operating systems with the same code base.
  • You can use it to develop either free/open source or nonfree applications. Learn more

Project Status

Build Status
Latest stable:  3.0.0 (2011-07-17)
Latest development:  3.4.0dev
Source snapshot:  .zip  .tar.gz
Binary snapshot (Windows):  .zip

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Features

Native RDDs, SQL, ODBC

Support for modern standards: JSON, SSL, TCP/IP, XML, …

Cross-platform: 64-bit, mobile, Mac, Linux, BSD, ARM, …

Console, TUI, GUI, service/daemon, web apps

Third-party libs with additional features

Team of experienced and capable developers

License

Harbour is a free and open-source project. It can be used to make open source applications, free or nonfree products. Learn more

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