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Where did you get the Linux version of freebasic?
Did it come as source code (that needs compiling).
Or is it a pre-compiled executable?  If it is a 
pre-compile executable, what are its dependencies?

I downloaded it at http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/download , the linux standalone version.

It is a pre-compiled file: source is available, but since it is self-compiling, I cannot recompile until I get the executable to work.

Since FBC runs, it doesn't seem to be a problem of dependencies. 

> since GCC and other compilers, using "as" assembler, 
> are available on baslinux, 

The default library in BL3 is libc5.  The GCC that 
runs on BL3 is a libc5 version (from Slackware 4.0 
which is also based on libc5).  If you have a pre-
compiled executable of freebasic, it was probably
compiled on glibc2 (a larger, more-up-to-date library)
and has glibc2 dependencies.  Executables with glibc2
dependencies will not run on BL3 (unless you upgrade
the libraries).

I upgraded them, as described on http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/library.html