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fpc-pascal · 2007-01

  1. support for FreeBSD4 broken in fpc 2.0.4

    I haven't noticed up to now, but using fpc-2.0.4 on FreeBSD does not work completely in FreeBSD 4.11 any more. Observations: - Compiling fpc 2.0.4 works. - Compiling…

    Marc Santhoff, Marco van de Voort
    7
  2. Copy and Dynamic Arrays

    How do I copy Dynamic Arrays? I can't do what I used to in Delphi, using the Copy() function, as FPC keeps telling me I have the wrong number of parameters. Doesn't FPC…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Henry Vermaak
    2
  3. making fpc

    I downloaded teh fpc sources on my Intel Itanium 2. I types sudo make and it gave me the following, what should i do?: make: -iVSPTPSOTO: Command not found make: -iSP:…

    Bobby Walters, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  4. MSEide+MSEgui version 1.0

    MSEide+MSEgui version 1.0 is released: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/msegui/ Have a lot of fun! Martin

    Martin Schreiber, Daniël Mantione, Krishna
    4
  5. FPC support for Windows Service apps or Unix Daemons.

    I committed to SVN a unit that implements support for services on Windows. On unix, it'll work as a simple console application, with the same semantics as a service. The…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  6. SIGSEGV unknown reason

    I have a program written in Delphi and now it is compiled with FPC 2.0.4 and running on Linux. I am having troubles to find what is causing it to break. The error I get…

    Alexander Todorov
    0
  7. Different Object Code formats

    This isn´t really a question about free pascal, more a general programming question, but I thougth someone here may have experience with this. On my efforts to port fpc…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    9
  8. Re: About FPC calling register like Delphi

    You are right about that. There is a routine that does that, but all it does is copy the prepared data onto the stack (And copy back the result). Now, there are a few…

    Carlo Kok, Alexandre Leclerc, Daniël Mantione
    16
  9. NAN for double

    How to set a double to NAN (not a number)? I only found a IsNAN in the math unit. Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    9
  10. dll with windows impossible???

    I am trying again without any hope, to use dll in a wondows application. It's very strange it's working with console application but not with windows apllication. My dll…

    Michel Meunier, Bisma Jayadi, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    14
  11. Garbled messages in daily digest

    It looks like the mailing list archives (and daily digest) don't like some messages: http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2007-January/013070.html - Jeff

    Jeff Pohlmeyer
    0
  12. FPC in DOS environment

    Hi all i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) the problem is that i have some low-level code…

    Daniel Franzini, Daniël Mantione, Jonas Maebe
    14
  13. Inline and defines

    What is the name of the conditional when we have inline on? I thought I can do {$IFDEF HASINLINE} but it doesn't work? Can you point me to some documentation please? At …

    Alexander Todorov, Jason P Sage, Jonas Maebe
    10
  14. Becoming crazy with dll

    I try to translate a dll from delphi to fpc, but I have a lot of problem. First I am unable to load it with loadlibrary. the code of the library is:…

    Michel Meunier
    2
  15. Holiday Message: Becoming crazy with dll

    ******Out of the Office Message************ I am currently out of the office and will be returning on Monday 29th January. Please address any urgent issues to Dean Woods…

    Andrew Denton, Jonas Maebe
    1
  16. Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message:Becoming crazy with dll

    ******Out of the Office Message************ I am currently out of the office and will be returning on Monday 29th January. Please address any urgent issues to Dean Woods…

    Andrew Denton
    0
  17. Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Becoming crazy with dll

    ******Out of the Office Message************ I am currently out of the office and will be returning on Monday 29th January. Please address any urgent issues to Dean Woods…

    Andrew Denton
    0
  18. Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Becoming crazy with dll

    ******Out of the Office Message************ I am currently out of the office and will be returning on Monday 29th January. Please address any urgent issues to Dean Woods…

    Andrew Denton
    0
  19. Holiday Message: Holiday Message: Becoming crazy with dll

    ******Out of the Office Message************ I am currently out of the office and will be returning on Monday 29th January. Please address any urgent issues to Dean Woods…

    Andrew Denton
    0
  20. opendbx for fpc?

    Is there somebody working on OpenDBX port to pascal? What do you think about this library? How about the comparison with Zeos and sqlDB? TIA. -Bee- has Bee.ography at:…

    Bisma Jayadi
    0
  21. regenerating makefiles

    still fighting with the build process: Is there any target or command to regenerate the makefiles in the compiler source tree opr parts of it (tools/h2pas actually)?…

    Marc Santhoff, Jonas Maebe
    2
  22. problems building h2pas of 2.0.4 release compiler

    after checking out "release_2_0_4" of fpc the compiler seems to have built correctly, but when it comes to building h2pas the following error occurs: <snip> gmake -C…

    Marc Santhoff, Daniël Mantione
    4
  23. need help with svn structure

    since I'm still bound to FreeBSD 4-STABLE for some reason I need to compile fpc myself (something changed in the startup code). I read the development page about svn but…

    Marc Santhoff, Daniël Mantione
    2
  24. cross compile for WinCE under Linux

    Hi Can I cross compile for WinCE under Linux? Or can this only be done from Windows? I want to try and develop some apps (and fpGUI widget set) for my PDA running…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    2
  25. Re: Microsoft C/C++

    May be you can use DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/ Guillermo "Ñuño" Martínez

    Unknown author
    0
  26. PascalScript - possible bug when using with FreePascal

    I am using PascalScript for a very big project written on Delphi. Now it is being ported to FreePascal and I found a problem. Maybe it is a bug. The problem is:…

    Alexander Todorov
    0
  27. Why this code fails

    This code compiles with 2.0.4 but gives runtime error 231 . program project1; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses Variants; var V : Variant; S : String = 'test '; begin V := 42;…

    Alexander Todorov, Jonas Maebe, Matt Emson
    6
  28. Problem with TSQLQuery

    i've got a problem while reading a huge database table with TSQLQuery. The program consumes all the memory and is then terminated by the kernel. I think all read table…

    Volker Zipfel, Henry Vermaak
    1
  29. function Copy is inconsistent with Delphi

    i am converting a big Delphi project a part of uses a lexical parser. It is dependent on the Copy function which in Delphi is declared: function Copy(S; Index, Count:…

    Alexander Todorov, Florian Klaempfl, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  30. where is the IsUniqueGlobalComponentName method.

    Does anybody know where I can find the IsUniqueGlobalComponentName method, in Delphi 7 it is in the Classes unit. I am using a OPF, and Someone has added a new method…

    Sam Washkansky, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  31. where is the IsUniqueGlobalComponentName method. (part 2)

    Here is some extra info about the IsUniqueGlobalComponentName method it was taken from the Delphi 7 help file. "Indicates whether a proposed component name is…

    Sam Washkansky
    0
  32. passing a class parameter as a const

    Hi Does passing a class parameter as a const make any difference? eg: Add(const AObject: TtiObject); vs Add(AObject: TtiObject); FCL code doesn't use 'const' for class…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  33. Fwd: [PSP-DEVEL] help me solve read/ln feature of webtext

    -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PSP-DEVEL] help me solve read/ln feature of webtext Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:30:12 +0700 From: Bisma Jayadi Reply-To:…

    Bisma Jayadi
    0
  34. Complex number calculation with FPC?

    I have to write a fitting program against an equation resulting from Fresnel's equations, using complex numbers. Is there an easy way (meaning I don't want do implement…

    Tobias Diekershoff, Daniël Mantione
    2
  35. Can someone help me to debug and correct this code?

    const maxliststore=30; strmaxlen=20; type objecttype=string[strmaxlen]; list=record object:array[1..maxliststore]of objecttype; last:integer; End; var choice:char;…

    Goksie, Daniël Mantione, Darius Blaszijk
    2
  36. FP IDE in DOS env

    I'm trying to write some pascal code on a DOS env (FreeDOS 1.0). Is the IDE for this plataform mantained?! The command line compiler does run fine, but the IDE shows up…

    Daniel Franzini, Daniël Mantione, Tomas Hajny
    2
  37. How can i detect what cause the problem

    I have a Symbol mobile device with an integrated barcode scanner. The scanner's API in C and I cannot use every API calls. An example: The problem appears in the…

    Gabor Boros, Daniel Franzini, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    4
  38. low level disk access under Windows

    Hello, I'd like to ask if someone has experiences with low level disk operations in windows with FPC. The program should be able to copy entire diskete to one single…

    Pianoman, Daniel Franzini
    1
  39. Popen

    I am trying to use the "Popen" function in Read mode. I first tried the example (---Write---) from the manual (see beneath). The POpen gives an error 25 (Not a…

    Carsten Bager, Marco van de Voort
    2
  40. "Variant array locked" error for now apparent reason

    As the subject line says, I keep getting this error and I can't see why! I'm trying to get the last 4 unit test errors fixed running the tiOPF project under FPC 2.1.1.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Leonardo M. Ram�
    5
  41. Re: (fw) PWU installation question

    On my debian system I place it anywhere - we haven't decided on an official location - however for ease of typing in your fpc.cfg search path or IDE search path it will…

    L
    1
  42. Exec

    On an Arm/Linux platform I call an external program (to calibrate a touch panel) with "Exec". That works OK. I can force the external program to return some values to…

    Carsten Bager, Jonas Maebe
    1
  43. FileExists inconsistency

    Hi all FileExists seems to be inconsistent between linux and windows. FileExists in linux returns true for a directory, but not in windows. The windows behaviour is…

    Henry Vermaak, Daniël Mantione, Jan Jelowicki
    21
  44. FreeType 2 with Free Pascal

    Has anybody ever used the FreeType 2 library directly with Free Pascal? Anybody know of converted C headers for FreeType 2? I want to implement anti-aliased text in my…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Florian Klaempfl, Jeff Pohlmeyer
    17
  45. an old Turbo-Pascal source

    using among others - ^Screen (from unit Dos) - unit GRAPH (I think, we then had written it with TP4) is there any chance to compile the source with FreePascal? Where…

    Friedrich Hattendorf, Daniël Mantione, Florian Klaempfl
    4
  46. OpenGL question

    I'm porting an app from Delphi to FPC wich uses OpenGL. As this is my first experience with OpenGL I'm having some problems. Under windows it already works, but under…

    Darius Blaszijk, Marco van de Voort
    1