gbi3(1)

gbi31

Gambas component informer

Usage

gbi3 [options] [components]

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...

gbi3 allows you to generate component description files.

Options

-f, --force

force generation of all description files

-h, --help

display help and exit

-L, --license

display license

-r, --root <directory>

gives the gambas installation directory

-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

--force since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --license since Debian 10 (Buster); --verbose since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -L since Debian 10 (Buster); -f since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

--format until Debian 9 (Stretch); -a until Debian 9 (Stretch); -all until Debian 9 (Stretch); -p until Debian 9 (Stretch).

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.