Hello all,

My name is Luiz and I'm a Masters is my first
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In my Masters research, I've acquired from the author some codes in Pascal, a language I've never worked with. I need to make some small modifications to the code and recompile it, but I'm not having success with the latest version of Free Pascal, the compiler recommended by the author.

I've researched some of the errors that I have and I think there are some incompatibilities with changes added to newer versions of Free Pascal. Since I never worked with Pascal, I would rather change the original code the least I can. So, I'd like to test older versions of the Free Pascal compiler and see if I can compile with them. I understand that older versions are not supported and it's always better to use the latest version, but I have evidence that lead me to believe that the code is "right", but inconsistent with newer versions, and I think the correct path would be to first try to compile it with older versions of FPC before changing it and trying to make it compile with the latest one.

I've found some older versions in this link:
http://www.freepascal.org/down/old/down.var. But, for Win32, the oldest version I've found was the 2.2.2. Is this the oldest version for Win32? Is there a place where I could access even older versions of the compiler?

This would really help my research to move forward!

Thanks in advance for any help!

Best regards,

No, sorry. We had to remove access to them because in the early days, some people appear to have copy/pasted code from the Delphi RTL into the FPC RTL, which is obviously unacceptable and which constituted copyright infringement.

Jonas

Am 06.10.2016 17:04 schrieb "Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Neto" <

: Thanks in advance for any help!

As Jonas said we can't provide you with any older compiler, but if you'd tell us what kind of errors you have maybe we can help you. Perhaps it's merely something were you use the wrong compiler options.

Regards,
Sven

First of all, thanks for Jonas and Sven for the fast answers.

It's unfortunate that you can't provide older versions, but I understand the reasons exposed.

Thanks for the suggestion, Sven, I'll check the errors I'm having and post them here for help.

Best regards,