gba3(1)

gba31

Gambas archiver

Usage

gba3 [options] [<project directory>]

gba3 -x <archive path> <file>

Overview

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a mix of Java(tm) and Visual Basic(tm). With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with Qt or GTK+, access database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQlite or ODBC databases, pilot applications with DBus, translate your program into many languages, create GStreamer, OpenGL or SDL applications, and so on...

gba3 is the archiver that allows you to create a standalone one-file executable from a Gambas project or extract a specific file from a Gambas executable (-x option).

Options

-h, --help

display help and exit

-i, --ignore=PATH

exclude a specific file or directory

-l, --list=ARCHIVE

list archive files

-L, --license

display license

-o, --output=ARCHIVE

archive path [<project directory>/<project name>.gambas]

-p, --ignore-public

exclude the '.public' directory

-s, --swap

swap endianness

-x, --extract=ARCHIVE

archive path

-v, --verbose

verbose output

-V, --version

display version

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 7–9
  2. 10
  3. 11–12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

--extract since Debian 10 (Buster); --ignore since Debian 13 (Trixie); --ignore-public since Debian 13 (Trixie); --license since Debian 10 (Buster); --list since Debian 13 (Trixie); --output since Debian 10 (Buster); --swap since Debian 10 (Buster); -L since Debian 10 (Buster); -i since Debian 13 (Trixie); -l since Debian 13 (Trixie); -o since Debian 10 (Buster); -p since Debian 13 (Trixie); -s since Debian 10 (Buster); -x since Debian 10 (Buster).

Availability

The Gambas website is at: https://gambaswiki.org/website/

The Gambas source code is available at: https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/

The documentation about the language is at: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker

From gambas3-dev-tools 3.22.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.