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fpc-pascal · 2011-07

  1. FPC 2.5.1 (trunk rev 18036): Can't find unit fastcgi used by custfcgi

    I got an error trying to compile FPC 2.5.1 (trunk at revision: 18036) on WinXP-SP3. Before update, I ran 'make distclean'. Console output: [snip] Start building package…

    Marcos Douglas, Florian Klämpfl, Marco van de Voort
    13
  2. Patch: new XML export for FCL-DB ready for inclusion, issue 19790 - includes Delphi Clientdataset

    Update: includes first stab at Delphi Clientdataset. Please test with various datatypes as I haven't been able to map all of them... Hi list (& Michael Van Canneyt ;),…

    Reinier Olislagers, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Ludo Brands
    38
  3. FreePascal as an embedded language in Firebird: possible and desirable?

    Hi FreePascal and Firebird people, (Cross-posted to the FPC and Firebird Development mailing lists) 1. Background ============= For the upcoming Firebird 3.0 database…

    Jim, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    7
  4. sdlutils on linux 64 bits

    I was trying to run the example from [1], but I have noticed fpcmake from sdl package does not compile sdlutils for my environment, Linux (ubuntu 11.04) 64 bits.…

    Daniel Gaspary, Jonas Maebe
    1
  5. operator overloading and counting references / creating / destoying anonymous instances

    I am just trying to wrap (parts of) the OpenSSL¹ bignum library (large integer arithmetic) into something that makes using it look at least a little bit more elegant…

    Bernd, Den Jean, Flávio Etrusco
    34
  6. Timezone information in a dataset datetime field? - updated

    I'm busy with writing an XML export unit targeting Microsoft Access/.Net framework (ADO.NET data access framework in particular). Runing an ADO.NET demo program I found…

    Reinier Olislagers, DaWorm, José Mejuto
    20
  7. FPC & fpGUI runs happily under OpenSolaris 2010.03

    After reading a post about another FPC developers trying to get a development system up and running under Solaris 10, I got curious. I downloaded OpenSolaris 2010.03…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Ludo Brands, Marco van de Voort
    11
  8. FPC release for Solaris not available on SF

    While I was trying out OpenSolaris and FPC, I did notice one small issue. The FPC 2.4.4 release for Solaris is not available for download from SourceForge, but it was…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Unknown author
    4
  9. Memds deprecated?

    According to Joost van der Sluis - 2010-07-22 12:14 in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13967 "TMemDataset is deprecated and TBufDataset should be used instead."…

    Reinier Olislagers, Unknown author
    2
  10. How to detect serial/usb-serial ports.

    In my program I need to present the user with a list of available serial and usb-serial ports on the system they are using. How do I detect in my program these ports?. …

    P. vanderWal, Fabio Luis Girardi, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
    9
  11. An idea in my head to improve compilation speed

    I've just read an forum post somewhere comparing compilation speed of FPC and Delphi when building MSEide. In that post, FPC is 9 times slower than Delphi 7. I don't…

    leledumbo, Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  12. Re: Library for network calculation

    Some time ago someone asked for a library able to do network calculations. Here is something that might evolve into such library : Uses StrUtils; Type TNetworkIP =…

    Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior, Dimitri Smits, Lukasz Sokol
    10
  13. Patch: new XML export for FCL-DB ready for inclusion, issue 19790

    Hi list (& Michael Van Canneyt ;), Earlier I announced I was writing another XML export module for FCL-DB. After some interesting hours with Excel, Access, .Net and…

    Reinier Olislagers, Inoussa OUEDRAOGO, Ludo Brands
    10
  14. fpweb fastcgi hello world example?

    I am struggling to get a simple hello world with fpweb with fastcgi with some luck but I cant seem to get any good output. I have the source code posted at…

    Joseph Montanez, Unknown author
    2
  15. Jpeglib thread safe?

    Looking around I have read that the C equivalent Jpeglib is not thread safe. I believe that the Pascal code is derived from the C. Is the Free Pascal implementation of…

    Shaun Simpson, Max Vlasov
    1
  16. compiling turbo power lockbox on ubuntu 64

    I use RSA encryption library lockbox turbo power. in a windows environment I managed to compile and the apps working well, I use {$ mode delphi}. but when I compile it…

    herux, Andreas Schneider, Ludo Brands
    5
  17. Timezone information in a dataset datetime field?

    I'm busy with writing an XML export unit targeting Microsoft Access/.Net framework (ADO.NET data access framework in particular). Runing an ADO.NET demo program I found…

    Reinier Olislagers, Ludo Brands
    13
  18. Download EmbWeb sources

    I've tried again to use fppkg to download embweb and I guess I still need 2.5.1 or something for it to work. Can I download the embweb source and package independently? …

    Lee Jenkins, Marco van de Voort
    4
  19. Pascal Actor Model

    V2 Release of Pascal Actor Model is done. I am now im the process of adding UDP message streaming support. This will allow multithreading to include threads running in…

    Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior
    0
  20. XML: how to change first line?

    I'm writing XML export for datasets using the XMLWrite and DOM units (as per documentation at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial) I've got this snippet:…

    Reinier Olislagers, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  21. FPC for ARM-7

    I am hoping to use FPC for ARM-7, compiling and debugging on a Windows machine. At the moment I am using Keil C + ULink2. Is it possible to use FPC from Windows and…

    Andreas Berger, Jeppe Grsædal Johansen
    1
  22. RE : RE : RE : RE : Patch: new XML export for FCL-DB, was: SDFDataset multiline support: request for a look at patch+test, issue 17285

    Don't know when it started, but at one point messages weren't going to the list anymore. Since my incoming messages are routed by title [fpc-pascal] they still showed up…

    Ludo Brands, Reinier Olislagers
    5
  23. TCustomListBox Sort Query

    I've got a file list box thats based around TCustomListBox , i noticed it can be sorted - i'm using it to display filenames but it would be really great to be able to…

    Justin Smyth
    0
  24. TR : RE : RE : Patch: new XML export for FCL-DB, was: SDFDataset multiline support: request for a look at patch+test, issue 17285

    -----Message d'origine----- De : Ludo Brands Envoyé : samedi 23 juillet 2011 13:24 À : 'Reinier Olislagers' Objet : RE : RE : RE : [fpc-pascal] Patch: new XML export…

    Ludo Brands, Reinier Olislagers
    2
  25. SDFDataset multiline support: request for a look at patch+test, issue 17285

    I'd really like to use fields that contain carriage returns and line feeds in SDFDataset, so I've written a patch for SDFDataset as well as a test. I'd appreciate it if…

    Reinier Olislagers, Ludo Brands, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  26. Request Suggestions - XML Interface

    I'm writing a small program which utilizes PascalScript. All objects provided to scripts are Interface instances with reference counting. I am making available to…

    Lee Jenkins
    0
  27. How to let compiler print waring for the dropped returned-vale

    E.g. function f0: boolean; begin f0:= false; end; begin f0; end; the returned value f0 is dropped. Compile it and the compiler won't print any warning. Any modifier or…

    ZHANG Dao-yuan, Jürgen Hestermann
    2
  28. Linux: How to execute a program, but not to wait until finishes

    How can I execute an external program, but to let my code continue. This doesn't work as I want and waits for finishing called app: ExecuteProcess (MyPathToExe, ' &');…

    fred f, Jonas Maebe, leledumbo
    18
  29. library questions

    When compiling a library 'abc.so' in Linux and then include it with linklib in a program there is a link error at the end of the compile process. I tried to move the…

    Rainer Stratmann, leledumbo
    2
  30. Partially initializing array of records

    Hello Everyone: I've got an array of records that looks something like this: type node = record foo : array[1..10] of integer; bar : array[1..10] of integer; end var…

    Clay Stuart, Flávio Etrusco, ik
    6
  31. Object Files

    Are object files platform dependent? Can you use object files created on Windows with a project compiled on Linux? Never used them before. Something tells me they ARE…

    Lee Jenkins, Flávio Etrusco, leledumbo
    6
  32. Pascal and static executable

    I'm writing an article about modern (Object) Pascal, but there is one subject that I do not fully understand (for the article that is :)) and I wish to be prepared for…

    ik, Jonas Maebe, leledumbo
    2
  33. TStringStream

    in rtl\objpas\classes\classesh.inc TStringStream is derived from TStream. It seems there was a time when this was valid:…

    Michael Müller, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  34. [semi-off-topic] some C questions arising while using h2pas

    I am just trying to convert some openssl headers to Pascal (I know that there is an openssl unit in the fpc packages but it is missing the ECDSA functions which I will…

    Bernd, ik, Jonas Maebe
    7
  35. how to test if a file is open to write?

    Because I have no idea how to do this properly (It has been a hundred years since I last used this form of file IO in Pascal) I have done the following hack, just to get…

    Bernd, Bart, Ludo Brands
    8
  36. Compiling just one package

    I want to compile just one package, e.g., c:\freepascal\compiler\2.4.5\rtl. 1) So, I used this: cd c:\freepascal\compiler\2.4.5\rtl set myroot=C:\freepascal set…

    Marcos Douglas
    1
  37. Why \fpc\2.4.5\units has a copy from all ppu files from each package?

    Why \fpc\2.4.5\units has a copy from all ppu files in each package? Marcos Douglas

    Marcos Douglas
    0
  38. Compilation aborted: sysutils.inc(80, 32) Fatal: Syntax error, ")" expected but "," found

    Error to try compile. My environment: -FPC /branches/fixes_2_4 revision 17973 -WinXP Path in attachment. ERROR: ../win -FE.…

    Marcos Douglas
    1
  39. Use of FPMake to build FPC from source

    It's been a while since FPMake established, and in svn / source version, there are fpmake.pp along with Makefile in almost every package (rtl, fcl, etc.). Is this system…

    leledumbo, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  40. getting UTC time

    Is there an easy (or elegant) cross platform way of getting the current time in UTC that works on all platforms? I did some google search and there it seems some people…

    Bernd, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Martin Schreiber
    2
  41. Odd delimited text file length limitations

    Sirs (and Madams, as need be), I use Free Pascal to compose simple filters: I take in a comma-delimited ASCII file, work the data, and spit back out the altered info.…

    Ko Hashiguchi, Bart, José Mejuto
    6
  42. simple messagebox for windows

    I need a simple messagebox (or msgbox) for windows - that doesn't depend (use) a whole load of lcl or other stuff - did I miss this in the fpc docs - sounds as if it…

    John Lee, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, José Mejuto
    5
  43. missing stacktrace - why?

    consider the following code: program extest; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} uses Classes, Sysutils; {$R *.res} procedure foo; var L : TStringList; S : String; begin raise…

    Bernd, Martin
    1
  44. video unit and pseudo-graphic characters on Windows

      I need to display pseudo-graphic characters on Windows XP (English version) using video unit from fpc-2.4.4 .   When I use "Raster Fonts" they are displayed correctly

    Calinov Valentin, Howard Page-Clark, Valentin Calinov
    2
  45. Compiling FPC with DEBUG

    I compile FPC with success using my tutorial: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29…

    Marcos Douglas, leledumbo
    3
  46. Installing *.deb Packages

    I downloaded some *.deb packages from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20i386%20DEB/Lazarus%200.9.30/ and wanted to install with dpkg…

    Rainer Stratmann, Henry Vermaak, Jonas Maebe
    13
  47. status of sparc solaris support

    Quick question: http://freepascal.org says: "It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM." "The following operating…

    Seth Grover, greim, Jonas Maebe
    7