I need to use synapse + ssl on linux and it requires libc but I cannot locate this unit.
Can anyone help?

Also, has anyone used it before? Is it stable?
I have been using lnet + ssl but it was unstable , so wanted to try synapse.

Any comments are appreciated.

Dennis

Dennis,

If you are looking for the FPC unit called "libc", on my system it is (source code)

/usr/share/fpcsrc/2.6.2/packages/libc/src/libc.pp

and comes with the warning

unit libc deprecated 'Unportable Kylix legacy unit that only exists on
Linux/x86. see http://wiki.freepascal.org/libc_unit ';

If you are looking for the underlying C library of that name, on my Ubuntu 12.04 X64 system, its in

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

Regards

Tony Whyman
MWA Software

P.S. Personally, I prefer the Indy components for Internet access.

It's very unlikely that you'll need the *unit* libc. That is deprecated, exists only for Kylix compatibility and only on i386-linux. What will be the case however is that it will the libc *library*. You can link to that by e.g. specifying {$linklib c}.

Regards,
Sven

In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:

some additions:

1. better use an unit that uses libc, like initc, that abstracts the exact name of libc, making it easier to fix for BeOS/Haiku and embedded targets

2. The wikipedia article in the wiki has some pointers what to replace libc with. Directly declaring prototypes for libc is the least desirable solution (after using unit libc).

http://wiki.freepascal.org/libc_unit

3. I thought recent synapses fixed this?

Sven Barth wrote

Am 22.10.2013 11:14, schrieb Dennis Poon: I need to use synapse + ssl on linux and it requires libc but I cannot locate this unit. Can anyone help?

AFAIK : Just remove it.

It is not needed any more.
I use synapse+ssl on 64-bit and unit libc is not available for that platform.

Michael.