This problem recently appeared in svn/fpc/trunk

I tried pointing to:

  CLSInfo : @Root.Test.CLSInfo ; // Still not working
  CLSInfo : @Root.Test.CLSInfo1 ;// Renamed dec and still didn't work.

This problem did not exist a few days ago.
I have a ton of units that don't compile now!!!

Please help.

fpc ./Test.lpr
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.7.1 [2012/04/30] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2012 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling ./Test.lpr
Test.lpr(65,43) Error: Illegal expression
Test.lpr(65,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PCLSInfo" Test.lpr(65,43) Error: Illegal expression
Test.lpr(66,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PACLInfo" Test.lpr(66,43) Error: Illegal expression
Test.lpr(73) Fatal: There were 5 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted

Andrew Brunner wrote on Mon, 30 Apr 2012:

You attached the .lpi instead of the .lpr file.

Jonas

Here's the source...

Andrew Brunner wrote

This problem did not exist a few days ago.

Can you be more precise? I just checked with trunk from before the jvmbackend merge (which is from Thursday), and that one also gives an error.

Jonas

Well,

The problem started when I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. The main project that uses similar code to my attached test had FPC raise the same error but with similar code.
Presently, a fresh build of FPC and Lazarus allows me to build my big project however, the test project still won't build with

Compiling ./Test.lpr
Test.lpr(65,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PCLSInfo"
Test.lpr(65,44) Error: Illegal expression
Test.lpr(66,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PACLInfo"
Test.lpr(66,44) Error: Illegal expression
Test.lpr(73) Fatal: There were 4 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted

But yet my big project with very complex nested declarations compiles just fine
<snip>
unit coAdmin;

interface
  uses hTimer,hHTTP,hHTTPd,hRSR,uRSR,Classes,uCoreObjects,uKeywords,
    hSRConsts,uTimer,uStringArray,uVarString,uKPList,hDateUtils,uFileUtils,
dbmDomains,dbmCoreObjects,dbmUserAccounts,dbmRSS,dbmCalendaring,hDatabase;
Type
  ns=class
  Type
    Admin=class
    const
      XMLInf:TXMLInfo=(
        Enabled                  : false;
      );
      ACLInf:TACLInfo=(
        Name                     : 'Admin';
        NameSpace                : '/core/admin';
        Caption                  : 'Administration Core Object';
        Prompt                   : 'User can access administration
dashboard';
        Description              : 'Back-end system administration handler'
      );
      CLSInf:TCLSInfo=(
        Name                     : 'TAdminCore';
        Location                 : 'coAdmin.pas';
      );
      Header:TCoreObjectInfo=(
        ID                       : 0;
        ProviderID               : 0;
        Enabled                  : true;
        Anonymous                : false;
        NotifyOnBuffersChanged   : false;
        Scale                    : 0;
        CLSInfo                  : @CLSInf;
        ACLInfo                  : @ACLInf;
      );
    <snip of more of these types of declarations>

FWIW FPC 2.6.0 also triggers the same error. AFAICS this problem is somewhat analogous to the limitation when declaring members in a record. Are you sure the unit in your big project is being compiled?

-Flávio

Yes. I'm completely sure it's working now. But i can't figure out why the small project doesn't. I even tried to make clean for my big project to see if I could make it not work.. but it compiles now.

I just encountered this problem again.

I can't build my process application and the attached project still won't compile. Can someone shed some light on this problem?

Thanks.

Ok,

Attached is a sample program that demonstrates the problem.

FPC 2.6.0 compiles just fine.
FPC Trunk has a problem.

The attachment of the unit in this thread prior SHOULD work but did not because there is a secondary problem in that once I moved the primary decs into a header file the using unit was able to compile in 2.6 but not 2.7.

Adding the contents of hTest to the project's types will make the make FPC 2.6 and 2.7 not compile.

I need 2.7 to compile with nested classes. You can fix the secondary problem if you want.. but I absolutely need 2.7 to compile the newly attached project.

Thanks

Probably this happen because of some bug fix because I have the same error in delphi:

htest.pas(44)
Test.lpr(41) Error: E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'CLSInfo' Test.lpr(42) Error: E2003 Undeclared identifier: 'ACLInfo' Test.lpr(49)

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin

Although if I change your sources to:

       Header:TCoreObjectInfo=(
         ID                       : 0;
         ProviderID               : 0;
         Enabled                  : true;
         Anonymous                : false;
         NotifyOnBuffersChanged   : false;
         Scale                    : 0;
         CLSInfo                  : @Root.Test.CLSInfo;
         ACLInfo                  : @Root.Test.ACLInfo;
       );

then delphi start to compile while FPC still does not.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin

Andrew Brunner wrote

I can't build my process application and the attached project still won't compile. Can someone shed some light on this problem?

It's best to file a bug report.

Jonas

Thanks Jonas, I thought it would be an easy fix. I really enjoy this feature in FPC. It's worth it to me to get these problems worked out. Not to mention having to re-write really pretty code :-(

I'm able to build with 2.6. However, I can't test 2.7 anymore until this particular error is resolved.