Hi,
some coders took our fast BeOS port of FreePascal and started to port FreePascal to QNX, they have some problems and I wonder if it's not better to use Linux version as a base?
Any ideas?
regards, Pavel Kanzelsberger

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Hi,
some coders took our fast BeOS port of FreePascal and started to port FreePascal to QNX, they have some problems and I wonder if it's not better to use Linux version as a base?
Any ideas?
regards, Pavel Kanzelsberger
I think that would be more logical, as QNX is more unix-like than BeOS like. They can look at the BSD or solaris ports to see what needs to be done. Probably mimicking the solaris port will be the fastest way to succes.
Michael.
OK, Thanks
Anyway I'm not sure if these ports are downloadable from www.freepascal.org website. Do they have to use CVS?
regards, Pavel Kanzelsberger
Quoting Kanzelsberger Pavel :
Anyway I'm not sure if these ports are downloadable from www.freepascal.org website. Do they have to use CVS?
CVS is dead easy to use from the command line. I'm a nivice (used it like, once before) and I managed to get the entire compiler and Rtl sources on saturday. Just follow the instructions on the CVS web page (and don't be behind a firewall or anything like that ;)
On another note: did you/your developers compiler the documentation on the FPC BeOS port that you promised yet?
Matt
OK, Thanks Anyway I'm not sure if these ports are downloadable from www.freepascal.org…
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OK, Thanks Anyway I'm not sure if these ports are downloadable from www.freepascal.org website. Do they have to use CVS?
First you have to decide if it is a native port, or a port to the POSIX subsystem (iow syscall or interfacing to libc).
Examples of the native ports are FreeBSD and Linux, examples of the POSIX/libc ports are Solaris, and probably BeOS too.
The BeOS port is in CVS, the SunOS not entirely.