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  1. Plans to support various ISO modes

    I hope this question is not part of the FAQ list. What are the plans for FPC as to the support of the various ISO modes of Pascal? At the moment, there is a switch to…

    Dominik Rappaport, Marco van de Voort, Sven Barth
    2
  2. State of Extended RTTI

    I am just wondering where eRTTI is at for Free Pascal. I have found this 5 year old thread (http://fpc-devel.freepascal.narkive.com/4OnA5HH5/state-of-extended-rtti), so…

    Nicholas Ring, Maciej Izak, Sven Barth
    2
  3. FPC (trunk) on Linux/ppc64le

    I wonder if anybody has a compiled binary that she or he could share? I need to run FPC natively on an IBM ppc64 LE Linux platform. Tobias

    Unknown author, Pierre Muller, Tobias Giesen
    3
  4. FPC license file location

    I looked in the fcl at some units and there license information. The unit header comment mentioned that I should consult the COPYING.FPC file. The "packages" (fcl)…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Tomas Hajny
    3
  5. Printing types in generics

    How should you print types in generics for debugging? here’s an example of how I’m doing it now but it’s hacky (forced type casting pointers) and tkSString crashes…

    Ryan Joseph, Sven Barth
    3
  6. CRT unit and Windows' terminal

    I want to create console app that's using box drawing characters from unicode. Before CRT unit is used, it's all fine and my program could draw table beautifully. But…

    Mr Bee, James Richters, Stefan V. Pantazi
    12
  7. Initializing constant (translate from C)

    Here's an interesting one. In C I have this code: #define ID1 MAKE_ID('A', 'B') Where MAKE_ID is a macro that depending on the endianness of the target will create…

    Darius Blaszyk, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Sven Barth
    2
  8. JavaScript versions of pascal RTL functions (FormatFloat, DateToStr etc)

    I'm developing an app were the client is written in Javascript + HTML and the backend in pascal (fpc) I'd like to use my pascal knowledge of RTL functions, mostly utils…

    Luiz Americo Pereira Camara, leledumbo, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    9
  9. Lua language in /packages/lua will be update?

    I would like to know if the translation of Lua to FPC, which I found in /packages/lua, is an official translation or just a lib made by someone else, which was included…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, Ryan Joseph
    2
  10. Google Drive API

    I would like to know if FPC implements the full Google Drive API. If so, since which version? First, I need to implement upload, download and search of files [1]. Any…

    Marcos Douglas B. Santos, leledumbo, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  11. Getting reason for failure with SendToRaw()

    I'm using SendToRaw() from a console application to send an email back to myself with attachments to aid in technical support. It always works find when I send the mail…

    James Richters
    0
  12. AbstractError in 3.1.1

    I just built the ppcx64 trunk version 3.1.1 so I could try the memory management operator overloads we talked about but I’m getting a compiler error in my project that…

    Ryan Joseph, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    8
  13. compiler option for $J directive

    Is there any FPC command line option for writable constanst directive {$J} or {$WRITEABLECONST} ?  Since I knew this directive, I always set it to {$J-} (because {$J+}…

    Mr Bee, Christo Crause, Juha Manninen
    17
  14. Const params question

    If you declare a parameter as const does that effectively behave like passing by reference? I have some performance sensitive functions that take records as arguments…

    Ryan Joseph, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    18
  15. no fpc.exe file after installation

    i installed “fpc-3.0.2.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64” on my laptop with windows 7, but there seem to be no fpc.exe file, so i can´t compile. In which folder should…

    Unknown author, Florian Klämpfl, Graeme Geldenhuys
    11
  16. alternative name fpc cross

    when I create the cross compiler to arm-android and arm-embedded I get the same compiler name so unable to have both running in the same system. any workaround? Regards…

    turro75, José Mejuto, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR
    17
  17. getting cross with the cross compiler

    I am having trouble getting fpc to cross-compiler for win64 target. I'm using fedora 26 which supplies 3.0.2 I used instructions here to create the cross compiler using…

    Unknown author, Florian Klämpfl, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR
    21
  18. TBufDataset vs TClientDataset

    I read a couple of archived mailing list posts about TBufDataset, which from what I read is FPC's equivalent to TClientDataset. That then begs the question... Why isn't…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, LacaK, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    6
  19. Managed properties idea

    Yesterday when I was thinking about that enumerators I had an idea for a language feature and something which I saw introduced in Objective-C some years ago. Retaining…

    Ryan Joseph, Maciej Izak, Marcos Douglas B. Santos
    17
  20. Getting the subnet mask?

    Is there a way to get the subnet mask of an interface using the Ararat Synapse tools? I would like to make broadcast but some networks have a subnet mask of…

    Anthony Tekatch
    0
  21. Obtain file size?

    I am wondering how to get the file size reported by the OS for a particular file without opening it. I tried to search for ‘Free Pascal File Size’ and variations…

    James Richters, Paul Nance, Sven Barth
    3
  22. Finding long file names

    I'm trying to use findfirst()/findnext to obtain a list of files. Here's my code: Searchfile:=Tap_Drive+Tap_Path+'\'+Tap_SubDirectory+'\*.TAP'; If FindFirst(Searchfile,…

    James Richters, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth
    3
  23. Connecting to a MySQL Server

    What library do I need to install on Raspian (Raspberry Pi) to allow Free Pascal to attach to a Mysql Server. Note the MySQL Server is running on a i5 and is actully …

    Terry A. Haimann, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  24. how to get a list of all thread id

    In my multi thread programs (I use multiple threads in my program and the windows dll that I used also used multiple threads), from time to time, there are some problems…

    Dennis
    0
  25. For ..in GetEnumerator Allocation

    As I understand the for..in loop GetEnumerator method is expected to create a new object each time it’s called and FPC destroys it later when the loos is finished. Can…

    Ryan Joseph, Graeme Geldenhuys, Marco van de Voort
    9
  26. Yet another thread on Unicode Strings

    Unicode Character String handling is a question that keeps coming up on the Free Pascal Mailing lists and, empirically, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is…

    Tony Whyman, Marco van de Voort, Mattias Gaertner
    2
  27. Help on using direct pascal compiler

    I want to use fpc.exe directly to convert pascal code to executable (* .exe) file. I do not know how to use it. When it comes to the fpc.exe file, it tells you to press…

    sjc snc, Michael Van Canneyt, Tomas Hajny
    2
  28. FCL-WEB and PostgreSQL Support: Current Status

    I am about to start a new project for a very small web application. I have some questions: 1 - Are the fcl-web and postgres packages stable? 2 - Are they recommended for…

    African Wild Dog, Daniel Gaspary, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR
    17
  29. How to call C++ function with Vector

    I have a windows 32-bit dll written in C++ (probably C++ Builder). It has 1 function which I need to call: int SPAPI_GetProduct(vector<SPApiProduct>& apiProdList) I am…

    Dennis, Dennis Poon, leledumbo
    8
  30. PTCGraph: Monitor, Orientation and Size Selection

    I have a system with 3 Monitors, 2 Horizontal 1920x1200 and 1 Vertical 1200 x 1920. I'm wondering if there is a way to specify which monitor my program using PTCGraph…

    James Richters
    0

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