From: "Peter Vreman" To: Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Installing IDE under W2000 > At 11:00 16-12-00, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > > > >I'm trying to get Free Pascal installed under Windows 2000 M.E., but I can > >not get to work. > >Compiling "hello.pas" results in "can not find system unit (DOS) > >go32v2....". > >Doesn't the installation program recognise W2000? Is there a simple way to > >fix this? > > Try with -vt to see in which directories FPC looks for the units OK, here's the output: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Free Pascal Compiler version 1.0.2 [2000/10/12] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2000 by Florian Klaempfl Compiler: c:\pp\bin\win32\ppc386.exe Target OS: Win32 for i386 Using executable path: c:\pp\bin\win32\ Using unit path: c:\pp\source\demo\text\ Using unit path: c:\pp\units\win32\rtl\ Using unit path: c:\pp\units\win32\paszlib\ Using unit path: c:\pp\units\win32\api\ Using unit path: c:\pp\units\win32\fcl\ Using unit path: c:\pp\units\win32\ Using library path: c:\pp\source\demo\text\ Using library path: c:\pp\units\win32\rtl\ Using library path: c:\pp\units\win32\paszlib\ Using library path: c:\pp\units\win32\api\ Using library path: c:\pp\units\win32\fcl\ Using library path: c:\pp\units\win32\ Using object path: c:\pp\source\demo\text\ Using object path: c:\pp\units\win32\rtl\ Using object path: c:\pp\units\win32\paszlib\ Using object path: c:\pp\units\win32\api\ Using object path: c:\pp\units\win32\fcl\ Using object path: c:\pp\units\win32\ Compiling c:\pp\source\demo\text\hello.pas Fatal: Can't open file c:\pp\source\demo\text\hello.pas +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Well, that seems OK! (should have typed ".pp" instaed of ".pas"...) But, why is the IDE looking for go32v2...??? (while compiling) > >Another problem is that it's not possible to type quotation-marks in the > >IDE-editor (it seems that Windows has a new built-in feature to easily type > >odd letters like "é" or "ö"...). > > Install the keybaord as US keyboard instead of international keyboard. Well, it is set to "US international"; other configurations seem to give a lot of unexpected (~disirable) effects. > Peter vriendelijke groet, Fernand. "De kracht van een vlieg is genoeg om een paard zijn staart te laten bewegen..." ____________________________________________ Fernand van Geene, Hoefsmid Korte Zandpad 18, 3412KV Lopikerkapel, the Netherlands tel. 06 55 86 53 56 http://www.xs4all.nl/~hoefsmid ____________________________________________

From: "Peter Vreman" To: Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Installing IDE under W2000 > You should then change the Target manually in the Compile menu. The > default setting is go32v2. This will be fixed in 1.0.4 to be win32 for the > win32 release. Hey, that works much better, Thanx! ;-) > > > >Another problem is that it's not possible to type quotation-marks in the....(...) > That is what i meant, the international makes it almost unusable for > developing programs which use " or ' for string constants. You need to > type " followed by a space everytime. > > Peter In the "old days" you could just read the chars directly from "kbd,".... Thanks, Peter! Still a lot to discover, but at least now I'm getting somewhere.. Kind regards, Fernand. "The force of a fly is enough to have a horse move its'tale" ____________________________________________ Fernand van Geene, Farrier Korte Zandpad 18, 3412KV Lopikerkapel, the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~hoefsmid ____________________________________________

From: "Kuba Ober" To: Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]Installing IDE under W2000 > > >Another problem is that it's not possible to type quotation-marks in the > > >IDE-editor (it seems that Windows has a new built-in feature to easily > > > type odd letters like "é" or "ö"...). > > > > Install the keybaord as US keyboard instead of international keyboard. > > Press space after hitting apostrophe keys. > Kuba Yep, tried that already. This gives the disired result in all MS-applications, but not in FPC.. (I get no apostrophe at all..). Off course I could use an other editor and use the commandline compiler, but I'd rather use the IDE.