Hello,
I hope I'm writing to the right mailing list.
To keep it short, I want to use RHIDE with the excellent FPC compiler. Though I like the compiler, the included IDE is very buggy and I like RHIDE, it is quite stable and comfortable to use. Also, RHIDE is available for Linux.

I've downloaded RHIDE 1.4.7 <rhid147b.zip> and <rhid_fpc.zip>, but I can't get them to work. Please help me ;(( I've moved from Turbo Pascal and would like a similar simple environment for small experiments... Am I bound to use the FPC IDE?

Gintautas wrote

I've downloaded RHIDE 1.4.7 <rhid147b.zip> and <rhid_fpc.zip>, but I can't get them to work. Please help me ;(( I've moved from Turbo Pascal and would like a similar simple environment for small experiments... Am I bound to use the FPC IDE?

Sorry, but just "I can't get them to work" is insufficient information to help you.

Jonas

Hello,

JM> Sorry, but just "I can't get them to work" is insufficient information JM> to help you.

Ouch I'm verrry sorry to have disturbed you ;-((
<me hits himself> Stupid me.
RHIDE has been giving me a lot of crashes, that was what I wanted to complain about, but as soon as I switched from Win2000 to Win98 all the problems went away. Well, thanks for your attention ;-)

Still, I'd like to ask: maybe I'm using an old version of FPC, but the included IDE is awfully buggy. Are there any updates? A part of screendump:

FreePascal IDE for Dos
Version 0.9.1 2000/12/31
(Compiler Version 1.0.4)
(Debugger GDB 4.18.pas.b1)

BTW is it OK to get rid of the DJDIR warning by simply doing something like "set DJDIR=."?

Also, I'd really like to do my programming under Linux. However, I wasn't able to compile RHIDE under Linux; it bombed out with an error something like "illegal operator '[]' blahblah" and I've no idea how to fix this. Is this problem known? FYI I use GCC v2.95.3. I'll try the Linux version of FPC IDE (actually I learnt that it was available just a few days ago, when I received the info about the new snapshot from your list).

Thanks for reading this letter,

Gintautas wrote

RHIDE has been giving me a lot of crashes, that was what I wanted to complain about, but as soon as I switched from Win2000 to Win98 all the problems went away. Well, thanks for your attention ;-)

Regarding RHIDE crashes: there's nothing we can do about that, we didn't create nor do we maintain it. It's a completely separate project done by other people. You should tell them about RIDE crashes.

You could try a 1.0.5 snapshot, though I've heard that the Win32 snapshot of the IDE is currently broken.

BTW is it OK to get rid of the DJDIR warning by simply doing something like "set DJDIR=."?

You should set it to c:\pp\bin\win32 (replace "c:\pp" with the actual directory where you installed FPC), it is used to find the binutils I believe (which are put there by the installer).

Also, I'd really like to do my programming under Linux. However, I wasn't able to compile RHIDE under Linux; it bombed out with an error something like "illegal operator '[]' blahblah" and I've no idea how to fix this. Is this problem known? FYI I use GCC v2.95.3. I'll try

Again, you'll have to ask the RHIDE maintainers about that.

Jonas