Hi all,

I do not manage to compile the Graphix 4.05 (4.02?) under Windows ME. I use win32 version 1.0.6 of the compiler. I have 64 Mb of RAM and 430 Mb of free space on my primary partition.

When it tries to compile the gxdd.pp, after a while I get the 'Out of memory' error,
and my hdd free space gets critically low, although I think that this amount of memory
ought be enough to build the 29kb file...

I also have trouble building the FreeType library - I get 50 errors of this kind:

ttinterp.pas(4395,30) Error: Incompatible types: got "<unknown type>" expected "
<procedure variable type of procedure(PSTORAGE);>"

I would really appreciate help,

Milos

This sounds like a bug in the compiler indeed. Try using -vl (or even -va), then you should see where this memory gobbling happens.

Try compiling it with the -Sd command line switch. In FPC, if you want to take the address of a procedure and you want to assign it to a procedure variable, you have to use "@procedure_name" instead of just "procedure_name" like in TP/Delphi. This check was broken in some places in previous versions of FPC however, causing inconsistent behaviour.

Jonas

Hi,

This done the trick, even for the Graphix library, although it already had {$MODE OBJFPC}directive.
It all compiled nicely with the -Sd switch.

I'm keeping it for good in my fpc.cfg :))

Thanks Jonas,

Milos

Milos Pejovic wrote

This done the trick, even for the Graphix library, although it already had {$MODE OBJFPC}directive.

{$mode objfpc} = -S2
{$mode delphi} = -Sd

Objfpc mode is normal FPC behaviour (which should not include consuming all memory on your system if an error is found :) with Delphi features such as classes, exceptions, rtti etc.

It all compiled nicely with the -Sd switch. I'm keeping it for good in my fpc.cfg :))

As long as you don't want to use any FPC features such as operator overloading, this should work fine.

Jonas