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fpc-pascal · 2015-09

  1. FreeBSD distro with fpc as star.

    Hello. There is a new FreeBSD "pure X" distro with fpc 2.6.4 and fpc 3.0.0 installed. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/polydev-the-pure-x-freebsd-distribution.53085/…

    fredvs, Fred van Stappen, Graeme Geldenhuys
    44
  2. FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

    Hello We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.0 on our ftp servers. You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.0 release by…

    Joost van der Sluis, Ched, Florian Klaempfl
    66
  3. PostgreSQL notifications broken

    PostgreSQL has a useful feature where application programs can send notifications to each other, this tends to be much "cheaper" than periodically polling a table for…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  4. How to compile Lazarus program using only FPC?

    I want to check my options regarding Lazarus and FPC. If I develop a program on Windows Lazarus, move it to Debian Lazarus (x86) and then finally want to compile on ARM…

    Bo Berglund, Dennis, gabor
    35
  5. Screwed FPC installation in Xubuntu

    I was able to get my Xubuntu 15.10 into a state where FPC doesn't work even if I remove and install again from repo. I tried installing FPC 3RC1 but then removed all…

    Juha Manninen, Bo Berglund, Graeme Geldenhuys
    6
  6. howto find alternatives for deprecated fucntions?

    if the docs and the compiler say that a function is deprecated, how can I find out which other function should be used instead? Example:…

    Klaus Hartnegg, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    10
  7. FPC fails to build rev 31874

    FPC revision 31874 is failing to build with the following error: pexpr.pas(3990,48) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 1: Got "tnode", expected "tsym" Last Changed…

    Anthony Walter, Sven Barth, Vincent Snijders
    4
  8. TDBF (dBase) vs TurboPower FlashFiler

    I'm again revisiting the idea of porting FlashFiler to FPC, but trying to justify if it is worth it or not. The NexusDB owner offered me (at one stage) a possible…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  9. FileIO in FPC 3.0

      In the discussion about resourcestrings I read that the RTL now uses codepage-aware strings for FileIO. So I wonder what kind of codepages do you use for FileIO? The…

    Andreas Dorn, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    9
  10. detect implementation / interface sections

    I tried sending this message two days ago, but it seems not to have gone through. Trying again. I like using include files, to break up big units into multiple files,…

    David Emerson, Jonas Maebe, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    2
  11. JSONRTTI load and save TDateTime issues

    I'm using the JSONRTTI unit to successfully save an object to a .json file. But when loading that file back using TJSONDeStreamer I get a conversion error due to the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  12. Unit crt

    What does SetRawMode do? var OldIO : termio.TermIos; inputRaw, outputRaw: boolean; procedure saveRawSettings(const tio: termio.termios); Begin with tio do begin inputRaw…

    Rainer Stratmann, Ched, Jonas Maebe
    17
  13. Resourcestrings in FPC 3.0

    I did not find resourcestrings mentioned here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0 http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_Unicode_support There encoding is not mentioned…

    Martin Schreiber, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    21
  14. Example of using TInetSocket, please

    I am porting an application from Windows Delphi 2007 to FPC on Linux (Raspberry Pi2). In the process I need to switch from using RS232 to TCP/IP to communicate with a…

    Bo Berglund, Paul Breneman, silvioprog
    2
  15. H2Pas sugestion: new -V param

    Some days ago, I did a conversion from a C header to Pascal, and I noticed that H2Pas tool could implement a little bit improvement for Variadic[1] (or varargs)…

    silvioprog, leledumbo
    1
  16. dereferenced pointer as open array argument

    Imagine I have this function: procedure ArrayTest(const data : array of char); begin ... end; and in another routine I have a pchar variable. If I slice the array byte…

    Seth Grover, Jonas Maebe
    1
  17. Linking failed on RaspberryPi

    I try to compile my program on Pi, with the official FPC 2.6.4 for arm linux, but get the following error: /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: In function…

    Xiangrong Fang, Jonas Maebe, Mark Morgan Lloyd
    13
  18. Sound procedure does not work

    What can I use if the sound procedure unable to work? It works under Windows, when I use the WinCRT unit, but it unable to work under Linux. What are the methods of…

    Géza Kovacs Géza, Bart, Fred van Stappen
    21
  19. CodePage fallback for FreeBSD systems

    I have a slight issue with a patch made in FPC, and will be included in the 3.0 release.…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    2
  20. got SIGSEGV with objfpc dialect

    Hi the compiler ( fpc 3.1.1 ) crashs when compiling this . //-------------------------------------------- {$mode objfpc} type generic pnode<T> = object data : T; link :…

    che fou, Ewald, leledumbo
    5
  21. How to use serial or usb-ports in linux... solved

    Sven, Christo, Henry and Mark, thanks for the advice. It shows me the way to go. But due to a hardware problem it takes some time to solve and test the program again.…

    P. vanderWal
    0
  22. crosstool-ng

    Going back to my cross compile to Pi question a while ago. I wounded up having to install crosstool-ng to cross compile VLC for the Pi. Could this tool also be used to…

    Chris Moody, Jonas Maebe
    1
  23. Assembler output

    Can anybody enlight me in how to: - Compile a program outputting assembler in intel format. - Assemble the .s files in a final .exe I can get assembler in AT&T format…

    José Mejuto, Florian Klämpfl, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR
    6
  24. Installing fpc

    Dear Michael When installing fpc I get the meassge "invalid user: ‘michael:michael’", do you have any suggestion on where I must chown? You're assistance will be…

    Steph Bredenhann, Joost van der Sluis, Marco van de Voort
    11
  25. How to use serial or usb-ports in linux

    I wrote a program to control a hobby milling machine.(Profiler, see Elektor-forum). The programm is written in fpc-pascal and using synaser in the windows version for…

    P. vanderWal, Christo, Henry Vermaak
    4
  26. fpGUI Toolkit v1.4.1 released

    I'm glad to announce the v1.4.1 maintenance release of fpGUI. I'll shortly update the file and documentation downloads on SourceForge. Source Code: ============ from…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, fredvs, Philippe Lévi
    4
  27. https support; call for testers

    I've just committed support for SSL in the ssockets unit of FPC. I also made the OpenSSL unit more thread-safe. One consequence of this is that the fphttpclient unit now…

    Michael Van Canneyt, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis, leledumbo
    16