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fpc-devel · 2026-01

1. Free Pascal / Free Vision: Executing shell commands and showing output

   Hello everyone, I’ve recently started exploring the Free Pascal source tree and digging into the fp text-mode IDE to better understand how things are structured and…

   ABMAruna Hewapathirane, Bart, Michael Van Canneyt1-30-2026 07:18 UTC
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2. GetModuleByAddr

   The third parameter of GetModuleByAddr is documented here <https://docs.freepascal.org/docs-html/3.0.0/rtl/exeinfo/getmodulebyaddr.html> to be of type "string". In the…

   AMAdriaan van Os, Michael Van Canneyt1-29-2026 16:33 UTC
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3. Unit libpcre2_16 not found

   Trying to build fpc (git) trunk on macOS 14 for SUB_TARGET=unicodertl [M2:~/fpc-svn/source/packages] administrator% make all FPC=/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/ppca64…

   AMAdriaan van Os, Michael Van Canneyt1-29-2026 09:58 UTC
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4. array of AnsiChar

   I built the fpc-3.3.1 trunk compiler on macOS (so far without the Unicode rtl). Is the issue below known ? Adriaan van Os administrator% cat chars01.pas {$mode…

   AMAdriaan van Os, Maxim Ganetsky1-28-2026 19:34 UTC
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5. Beginner question: Building the fp text-mode IDE standalone

   I’m fairly new to working with the Free Pascal IDE sources and I’d like to build *fp* by itself for learning and testing purposes. I’m using *Linux (Debian)*, and…

   AMAruna Hewapathirane, Michael Van Canneyt1-26-2026 00:52 UTC
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6. Include file search order - clarifications

   Maybe I missed some docs... But I found: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu40.html#x47-460001.2.40 That leaves some questions though...   {$I C:\test.inc}…

   MMartin Frb1-23-2026 15:52 UTC
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7. rtl/darwin/Makefile.fpc

   Trying to build some fpc-3.3.1 from git, I have some troubles with rtl/darwin/Makefile recreated from rtl/darwin/Makefile.fpc. I tried both cd rtl/darwin fpcmake -w -Tall

   APAdriaan van Os, Pierre Muller1-23-2026 14:51 UTC
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8. New bounty for working Windows aarch64 compiler

   Just wanted to let you know someone is willing to pay up to $10,000 for getting Windows aarch64 target working, in case any one is interested - here is the link:…

   AAndrew Fox1-22-2026 01:38 UTC
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9. build unicodertl on win64

   I'm trying to build the namespaced unicodertl on win64: First I build the normal compiler+units: make distclean all make install PREFIX=C:\pascal\3.3.1…

   MMMattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt1-21-2026 10:49 UTC
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10. ASpell and Win64

    Maybe its something I did wrong, but my 64 bit Windows build of fpc does not have the ppu/o files for ASpell? Building for 32bits and they are there. This is 3.2.2 /…

    MMartin Frb1-9-2026 19:02 UTC
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11. protected class section / documentation

    According to https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse34.html "to descendant types" => suggests, from within a descendant type (even if the descendant type is in a…

    MMMMartin, Martin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt1-8-2026 12:40 UTC
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12. Alternative for ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND on Linux?

    https://github.com/remobjects/pascalscript/issues/197#issuecomment-3712144589 What would be a good code on Linux (and what units are needed)?

    MMMartin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt1-6-2026 08:55 UTC
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