I've installed the freepascal IDE for linux, but it keeps telling me that SYSLINUX can not be found. What have I configures wrong. Free Pascal is installed in /usr/lib/fpc/1.1/ and all the directories exist.

~/fp.cfg file:

# Automaticly created file, don't edit.
#IFDEF NORMAL
-Tlinux
-Sg
-O1
-OG
-Op2
-Ratt
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/1.1/units/linux/rtl
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/1.1/units/linux/*
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/1.1/units/linux/
-Fl/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2
-Cs131072
-Ch2097152
-g-
-p-
-b-
#ENDIF

#IFDEF DEBUG
-Tlinux
-Sg
-Cr
-Ci
-Co
-OG
-Op2
-Ratt
-Cs131072
-Ch2097152
-g
-p-
-b-
#ENDIF

#IFDEF RELEASE
-Tlinux
-Sg
-O1
-O2
-OG
-Op2
-Ratt
-Cs131072

you wrote

I've installed the freepascal IDE for linux, but it keeps telling me that SYSLINUX can not be found. What have I configures wrong. Free Pascal is installed in /usr/lib/fpc/1.1/ and all the directories exist.

You can't use the IDE with the 1.1 compiler.
Peter

I've installed the freepascal IDE for linux, but it keeps telling me that SYSLINUX can not be found. What have I configures wrong. Free Pascal is installed in /usr/lib/fpc/1.1/ and all the directories exist.

You could try to descent into /usr/lib/fpc/1.1/rtl and do a

touch *

Why not?

I've installed an older version and it works. But why isn't the IDE updated?

Has anyone tried to send a mail from within a fpc program

I'm trying to make a 'alarm program' to send a mail and/or a SMS via a smtpgateway

any simple solutions to this problem ?

/regards

Kenneth Due

On linux it's versy simple; one of the first examples:

-----------------------------------------------------------
program sendmail;
Uses linux;
var F : Text;
begin
  POpen(F,'sendmail ','W');
  Writeln(F,'Subject: Sending a mail with fpc');
  Writeln(F);
  Writeln(F,'sending mails is very easy');
  If PClose(F)=0 then
    Writeln('Sent mail successfully')
end.
-----------------------------------------------------------

See linux unit documentation.

On windows, it's more hard, there you must use the 'mapi' dll;
but that is a little more complicated.

Michael.

you wrote

I've installed an older version and it works. But why isn't the IDE updated?

1.1 is an development version. If 1.1 gets stable, the IDE will be adapted to 1.1

Michael:

Where is the documentation for sendmail?

Looking for the place to where I could get details over the intricacies of the pipe "sendmail"?

I would be interested in getting a result code back from sendmail about errors in transmission.

Mark

www.sendmail.org

Carlo Kok wrote

I've installed an older version and it works. But why isn't the IDE updated?

Because nobody has time to continuously merge all changes from the fixes branch IDE in the main brnach IDE. And recently, the unit that allows programs to interface with the compiler (to get e.g. the number of lines that's already compiled etc.) has been changed from TP-style objects to classes, which means the IDE from the fixes branch can't be used anymore with the compiler from the main branch until it's updated.

Since the IDE is still in heavy development (just look at the bug reports on the website, at least 75% is about the IDE), it's more productive currently to focus on fixing bugs in one branch, than fix/merge every time (since after merging, you have to test again).

Jonas