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fpc-pascal · 2016-08

  1. FPC 3.0.2 Release Date

    There are some critical bugs in fpc 3.0 which are already fixed. So, why the 3.0.2 version was not released yet? Do you have any estimate about when it will be released?…

    African Wild Dog, Jonas Maebe, Juha Manninen
    5
  2. Libraries-search-path of /usr/bin/ld ?

    Hello. How to define the search path of libraries while linking ? In a FreeBSD 64 multiarch system, fpc32 compiles without problems but at linking there is that message:…

    fredvs, Graeme Geldenhuys
    5
  3. LLVM Backend Support

    What is the current status of the LLVM backend support? Best regards

    African Wild Dog, Anthony Walter, Dmitry Boyarintsev
    21
  4. Delphi may have Linux support next year

    I don't know it's been posted here yet, but over at the Embarcadero community website a new roadmap has been published.…

    Anthony Walter, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marc Santhoff
    3
  5. Correct way to write generic type aliases

    I want my in-project units depend on a single in-project unit which abstracts the actual used out-project units. i.e. instead of: MyUnit1 -> RTLUnit MyUnit2 -> RTLUnit I…

    leledumbo, Sven Barth
    4
  6. Free Delphi 10.1 Berlin Starter Edition

    finally we have simple way to test new syntax to improve FPC quality / $MODE DELPHI without spending $ on Delphi :) Probably limited time offer:…

    Maciej Izak, brian, code dz
    37
  7. FPC trunk internal error 200310221

    I have recently started seeing FPC internal error 200310221 when compiling a changed program with lazarus using the trunk fpc version. If I do a build, the problem goes…

    C Western, Jonas Maebe, Unknown author
    3
  8. Doubt related to the issue #30498

    A possible inline way (without declaring specialized local variables) to compile the attached test at the issue #30498 <http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30498> is:…

    silvioprog, Sven Barth
    2
  9. Can not set voice property of SpVoice

    I am testing a text to speech program working on Windows SAPI, and I encountered a problem that I can not set the Voice property because "member not found". Below is the…

    Toru Takubo, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  10. googleapiconv

    When I run googleapiconv, I get the following ./googleapiconv -s calendar/v3 -o calendar.pp Exception at 0000000000494F7F: ERESTAPI: Unknown class :…

    Dave Connolly, Lubos Pintes, Marco van de Voort
    15
  11. googleapi package, TCalendarListResource.List, unhandled exception

    I am not sure if this is useful or not. After some fiddling with compiler options, I was able to generate full line trace of exception I obtain when I try to call the…

    Lubos Pintes, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  12. Free Pascal Foundation Roles and Goals

    funds to support the FPC and Lazarus development. In the future, the foundation will play another roles like e.g., coordinate and manage FPC and Lazarus projects? Best…

    African Wild Dog, Jonas Maebe
    1
  13. Compatibility of very similar generic types

    Consider this: TSubClass1 = class(TSomeClass)...; TSubClass2 = class(TSomeClass)...; TSubClass1Vector = specialize TVector<TSubClass1>; TSubClass2Vector = specialize…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Sven Barth
    3
  14. Delegate Interface class does not seem to be referenced counted

    I'm using fpc 3.0.0 and trying to debug a program using COM interfaces. While reference counting seems to be working fine, there is one exception, that is when an…

    Tony Whyman, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    13
  15. rtl-generics: TIStringComparer.Ordinal -> Access violation

    Just try it: var list: TDictionary<string, string>; begin list := TDictionary<string, string>.Create(TIStringComparer.Ordinal); Error: An unhandled exception occurred at…

    silvioprog, Maciej Izak, Sven Barth
    9
  16. windows graph unit questions

    I have a few questions about using the graph unit with windows. 1. Is there any way to get rid of the bar at the top that says 'graph window application' I…

    James Richters, Pierre Free Pascal
    2
  17. Does FPC supports the `delayed` directive?

    Firstly, a quot from Dr.Bob's site: The basic idea of the solution is the fact that the DLL will not be loaded The main idea is the similar to the traditional dynamic…

    silvioprog, Sven Barth
    4
  18. overloaded property index

    I'm still using fpc 2.6.4 (but I tested what I'm saying below with fpc 3.0.0 too). I need to overload the type of the index of an indexed property, e.g. function…

    Luca Olivetti, Jonas Maebe, Michael Van Canneyt
    9
  19. rtl-generics: Suggestion and question

    I've spend some time adapting my beta project to use the new rtl-generics classes, however, I have some issues regarding to TDictionary class. Let's go to a test using…

    silvioprog, Maciej Izak
    3
  20. Are the TEncoding singletons thread-safe?

    I've used the useful singletons available in the TEncoding class, and I don't get any problem with them, unless using threads. I have an application that does many tests…

    silvioprog, Bart, Jonas Maebe
    14
  21. Google Calendar API and unsupported exception

    I am again here with questions about Google API. I am currently creating a console application for testing. Because it doesn't work, I tried to compile a fresh FPC trunk…

    Lubos Pintes
    0
  22. Does Free Vision support utf8 on unix?

    Does Free Vision support utf8 on unix? This example builds fine on Linux but the second messagebox shows weird symbols: program TestFV; uses App, MsgBox; type TMyAPP =…

    Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado, Graeme Geldenhuys, Jonas Maebe
    5
  23. Google API on Windows

    Do I absolutely need the OpenSSL library if I want to use Google API under Windows? I am asking just in case there is something native I am not aware of. I would like to…

    Lubos Pintes, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  24. TArray.Sort<string>(array) returns 'Error: Identifier not found "TArray" '

    First, thanks a lot for the rtl-generics units, this really was a great contribution to the Free Pascal community! So, sometimes, I need to sort the values of a…

    silvioprog, Maciej Izak, Sven Barth
    5
  25. Variant record consistency

    Given a declaration const topDataQword= 29; topNameChar= 231; type Tfnord= record case boolean of false: (data: array[0..topDataQword] of qword); true: (name:…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Gerhard Scholz, Jonas Maebe
    5
  26. Google API, OAuth2 and Windows

    I want to use Google Calendar API with FPC 3.0.0 under Windows. I grabbed necessary units from SVN, because it seems to me that they are not available under FPC 3.0.0…

    Lubos Pintes, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  27. RTF writer

    Hi List. I am looking for at component that can write RTF format, preferably like the TRichMemo: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/RichMemo but without the need for LCL.

    Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Dmitry Boyarintsev
    1
  28. FPC 3.0 and FPC 2.6 on Ubuntu. How to change default version?

    Need to have both FPC versions, 2.6 for all old projects (a lot) and 3.0 for new ones (only one for now). Installed 3.0 from debs (2.6 is also from deb packages). While…

    Krzysztof, Jonas Maebe, Marco van de Voort
    4
  29. {$FINITEFLOAT OFF}

    does we have in FPC something like Delphi {$FINITEFLOAT OFF} ? If not can be implemented in future ? I am trying to avoid FPU exception in case of underflow or overflow…

    LacaK
    0
  30. String concatenation failure (again)

    I just came accross another issue of string concatenation within my program that worked okay before FPC 3 but fails after updating to FPC 3. I had not used this function…

    Jürgen Hestermann, José Mejuto
    3
  31. New Arc attempt

    Just came across this on my fb timeline: https://pascal.today/2016/08/01/arc-for-non-managed-types/ would be interesting for gc lovers. WARNING: the given code there…

    leledumbo, Maciej Izak
    2