Hello

We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.4 on our ftp servers.

You can help improve the upcoming 2.6.4 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_2.6.4

Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4

Downloads are available at the main FTP server and

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team

Free Pascal Compiler

Version 2.6.4rc1

****************************************************************************** What's New in 2.6.4rc1
******************************************************************************

Free Pascal 2.6.4 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4 for a list of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

Compiler:

Packages:
* Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db
* web and json packages synchronized.
* improvements to the chmcmd compiler.
* Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits)

Platforms:

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.

Marco van de Voort wrote

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/

I get a "Permission denied" for that URL.

Bart

2013/12/19 Bart

Page not found for me. :'(

Error code: ERR_FTP_FAILED

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/

That one worked for me (had to search a little while on the freepascal main age to find it).

Bart

2013/12/19 Bart

Working fine now, thanks!

In our previous episode, Bart said:

> ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/ I get a "Permission denied" for that URL.

Corrected.

I downloaded

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/i386-win32/fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe

The setup the said:

"The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program."

I did that; the second copy also didn't work.

Greetings

Gerhard

let me guess... these are MSI installer packages and you didn't verify the MD5 of the files? maybe?

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/i386-win32/fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe

the MD5 of the files? maybe?

We don't use MSI, but AFAIK InnoSetup.

Regards,
Sven

2013.12.26. 0:33 keltezéssel, Gerhard Scholz írta:

Hi,

I downloaded from 4-5 mirrors and got same error message.

Gabor

Gabor Boros wrote

I downloaded from 4-5 mirrors and got same error message.

Same here: downloaded from ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.6.4-rc1/ (Win7-64)

Bart

Sorry,
I did not realize that the upload did not complete. The correct size is above 40 MB.

I uploaded it again on ftp.freepascal.org

$ md5sum fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe
132d4777b5d98cca13418ae0460a0b32 *fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe
$ ls -al fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Pierre None 42136156 16 nov.  16:14 fpc-2.6.4rc1.i386-win32.exe
  Please test again.

Sorry for the mistake.

Pierre Muller

2013.12.26. 18:03 keltezéssel, Pierre Free Pascal írta:

Downloaded, installed and works like a charm.

Gabor

Hello,

The win32 seems to work perfectly, at least on all the intensive numerical simulations I done.

I haven't found the win32/64 cross-compiler on ftp.freepascal.org ...

Thanks for the greaaaaaaat piece of software !

Raoul

Could you please build win64 and wince cross compilers with the same version of inno setup as wel?

This page does not yet exists? Is this correct?

Regards,
Torsten Christiansen.

In our previous episode, Torsten Bonde Christiansen said:

> Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at: > http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4 This page does not yet exists? Is this correct?

Yes, the RC1 is prepared as much as it was the final release. But not everything is up to the level of the final release yet.

Hi Again.

I have found some issues with PScanner in fcl-passrc. Should i report them to both the bugtracker, and the
"Issues" page of 2.6.4 or just the bugtracker.

I will include fixes for the bugs as well and would really hope the are merged to the final 2.6.4.

Regards,
Torsten Bonde Christiansen.

I forgot the mention, the bug is NOT fixed in trunk.

-Torsten.

You should always report bugs in the bugtracker.

And if you provide fixes, make sure the testsuite still runs OK.

Michael.

I am not sure this case was tested at all - should i try implementing a new test or just advide what must
be tested. I ask because i'm not at all familiar with the testing framework... :)

-Torsten.

I can't comment without knowing what it is, but if you provide a small test program that shows the bug, and that shows that the bug is fixed after your patch is applied, I'll integrate it with the unit tests.

Michael.

Bug reported as:
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25469

Including patch and program with test.

-Torsten.

Thank you, I will have a look ASAP.

Michael.

The test program compiles and runs fine without a patch applied. What am I supposed to see ?

Michael.

It ought to fail at parsing line num 31....

I will check again later tonight!

-Torsten.

For me it still fails at parsing line no 31, however the problem is in PScanner.pp:1400.

The Result (TToken) variable is not set at any point, hence with your compilation it may return a valid result, but mine fails.

I believe my patch still applies, so please take a look the PScanner.pp code before ruling it out.

Regards,
Torsten Christiansen.

That would be very surprising, actually.

I believe my patch still applies, so please take a look the PScanner.pp code before ruling it out.

I'm not ruling out anything, just being careful :)

Anyway, I applied a modified version of your patch. Test results remain correct.

Michael.

Hello All,

I don't know if I'm the only people having problems with the fp IDE of the rc1 from the win32 package under winxp 32 bits...

The complier works fine. But when I have an error in the source code of a program, I can't jump to the location of the error after the compilation attempt using the space-bar as previously. In fact, the fp IDE crash systematically after the third try...

Cheers, Raoul

Hi Raoul,

Thanks for testing 2.6.4rc1 out.

I could not reproduce your problem
on my setup (Windows-7 64-bit).

Are you sure that the problem
also appears when simply compiling this source:
(This is just demo/text/hello.pp with a wrong line added).

{
This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. Copyright (c) 1993-98 by the Free Pascal Development Team

Hello World Example

See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details about the copyright.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

**********************************************************************}

program hello;
  begin
     writeln('Hello world');
     ddddddddddd:=6;
  end.

Can you test this out and check if the problem also appears on such a simple source.

Please try it out in a directory without any fp.dsk fp.ini or fp.cfg files. This might help to narrow the problem down.

Pierre Muller

Dear Pierre,

I investigated the fp-ide crashes. There are due to remaining fp.cfg and/or fp.dsk and/or fp.ini in the working directory. In effect, removing all these three files makes all go all right.

Cheers, Raoul