Hello,

I'm doing my first steps in fp - and for a long time in Pascal again - and use the 2.4.0 version. I more or less often come into a situation, where the compiler simply tries to compile my program and just says (after a long list of infos - but not errors or warning): "Compilation aborted" (and boy: I have lots of syntax errors - it is 20 years agos when I did my last Pascal programming). Then I terminate fp, start it again, compile the same source code and get the error messages I need to fix my errors.

Marten Feldtmann

The problem is that the compiler contains quite a lot of global variables. When the compiler is used from the command line (or when the IDE is initially started), these are all 0. When you have multiple compilations within one execution (such as with multiple compilations in the IDE), these variables must be explicitly reinitialised for each compilation, or the next compilation can be influenced by the results of the previous one. These initialisations are however forgotten from time to time.

Jonas

Strangely enough, I get that too. Seems like the IDE-compiler gets stuck if it encounters a specific obscure combination of errors in the program code, or maybe after reporting a few hundred of them. The IDE works otherwise fine, just compiling refuses to go further than "Compilation aborted." The command-line compiler is not affected. Restarting the IDE gets the F9-compilation running again and reporting errors right.

I think this has only happened to me if there were errors to be reported. Never hung yet when compiling error-free code.

-Mimu