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  1. 0.9.20 released

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.20 release. This release is based on fpc 2.0.4. This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page:…

    Mattias Gaertner, Adrian Veith, Vincent Snijders
    2
  2. Fpc compiler error win32 "Entrypoint _mainCRTStartup not defined"

    Was trying the last trunk and got this error on the i386-win32. Its not a big deal, we still got a working fpc/lazarus for win32 & wince, just wundering if this is a…

    Marius, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    13
  3. C API call problem under WinCE

    If I start the test application on the WinCE device the result is: "project1.exe is not a valid Windows CE application." If I comment out the SCAN_FindFirst call, the…

    Gabor Boros
    0
  4. Is it necessary to protect passed passwords in memory?

    I was thinking of writing a daemon in freepascal. When the program is started it will ask for a password. Then keep the pass in a string variable, using it every 10…

    Johannes Nohl, Marc PERTRON, Michael Van Canneyt
    6
  5. Progress Bar in different widget sets

    GTK's progress bar has a feature where the progress bar moves left and right repeatedly, instead of the normal from Min to Max. What do you call that feature and what do…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Alexander Todorov, Burkhard Carstens
    36
  6. How to fix - Hint: Type size mismatch

    I am trying to clean up the fpGFX code and trying to get rid of all compiler warnings. I get the following compiler hint on every line in the RectToXRect function. Using…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  7. Re: PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR

    Thank you very much, that has helped a lot. The project files readme has a good description of how XCode's build system works, which also has helped. Erling's template…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    1
  8. Problem with multiple inheritance

    I was trying to split the o-o wrappers around Qt procedural wrappers in 2 parts. One that depends on Lazarus and another that can be used with only Free Pascal. So I…

    Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Marc Weustink, Matt Emson
    4
  9. Generics

    As I can see, there already is some support for generics in FreePascal, but only for classes. Will records, their operators and free functions be supported too ? Could…

    Albin Pučnik, Florian Klaempfl
    1
  10. PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR

    With fpc, in trying to compile an example brought in from CW, and using XCode 2.4.1 on a Dual 2.0 G5 10.4.8, I have started with a Carbon template. In the target rules…

    Ken G. Brown, Jonas Maebe
    1
  11. DateToStr locale

    hello all i've noticed that DateToStr gives correct results on win32 (regarding locale), but on linux and osx it always gives the date as dd-mm-yyyy. i read somewhere in…

    Henry Vermaak, Marco van de Voort, Michael Van Canneyt
    5
  12. Program needs probably the variants unit

    I wrote accidentally the following line of pascal code: writeln(output, a + b); where a was a double, and b was a string. The program compiled, linked successfully. Why?…

    Jan Jelowicki
    0
  13. Linux Install: Is it me or the documentation? ;-)

    First let me say how pleased I am to discover FreePascal. 'Twas my favourite programming language way back around 1988-89, being the last time I put my serious…

    Lev Lafayette, Alain Vitry, Bisma Jayadi
    9
  14. ROPS and latest FPC compiler (svn)

    I'm running into strang ROPS behaviour when using the latest compiler in svn. Is there a compiler switch required for it to work ok? Using revision 3823 I have no…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Florian Klaempfl, Jesus Reyes
    15
  15. -Xe and -Xi question

    when using -Xe option DBG is working, but when using -Xi it is not. Is it normal? (Using an old 3823 revision.) I tried r4479 (v2.0.4) and v2.0.4 FPC version but -Xe is…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Peter Vreman
    3
  16. how FPC expects string/interface/variant results?

    I have a question (for ROPS) in FPC that is way over my head. - Can you find out how FPC expects string/interface/variant results ? Is there documentation where I could…

    Alexandre Leclerc, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe
    7
  17. FPC hackers contest [was: Eye Candy Contest]

    On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:19:57 +0100 Lots of people are very fond of C because you can write 'unreadable' code and do some fancy/hackerish things like printing program's…

    Alexander Todorov
    0
  18. Linux library access violation

    I get an "Access violation" when I call a function from a C library. Not sure if I can explain well enough, so I will just post the code: The C library: #include…

    Chris, L, L505
    4
  19. Makefiles vs Pascal Automation

    In many cases makefiles take about just as long to create as shell scripts or pascal programs - they just offer a nice framework to automate compiling in an easy way -…

    L505, Mattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt
    4
  20. Rename executable extension MAKE or FPC

    Hi all, it's been a long time.. but I have a question. Is there any way tell FPCMAKE to rename all PROGRAMS to have a different extension? Example: On Windows:…

    L505, Peter Vreman
    2
  21. Order of {$H+} and OBJFPC

    {$H+}{$MODE OBJFPC} Results in short strings with fpc-2.0.4, and long strings with previous compilers. Is this a bug fix, or a new bug? - Jeff

    Jeff Pohlmeyer, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Judison
    5
  22. TypInfo Error: type identifier not allowed here

    Why do I get this error? /tiOPF/UnitTests/Common/tiDUnitUtils.pas(231,32) Error: type identifier not allowed here It works on other enumerated declarations, but not on…

    Graeme Geldenhuys
    1
  23. win resource sections

    could you tell what progress (approximately in percents) is done with Windows exe resource sections support, please? Herewith i want to note that login status label in…

    Rimgaudas Laucius, Michael Van Canneyt, Peter Vreman
    4
  24. I think I must be the first person to ever use tmemds for anything serious...

    I think I've just found my 3rd bug in the unit. for me, it always says true when booleans are returned with .asBoolean, and as empty strings when returned with .asString…

    David Mears
    0
  25. Compilation error with compiler abort

    Hi ! I'm developing a program in FPC. The success of this project will define the use of FPC as a approved tool here in my job. Suddenly I became to receive a strange…

    Nightrider, Florian Klaempfl, Marco van de Voort
    2
  26. Qt4 binding ported to 64bit

    FYI: thanks to a patch from Giulio Berna, the Qt4 binding now also works on 64 bit platforms ( ifdef _LP64... ) Important note from Giulio: there is a bug on fpc 2.0.4…

    Den Jean, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho, Florian Klaempfl
    3
  27. XSLT library

    Is there a XSLT library included with FPC. I did have a look and couldn't find anything, but thought I would ask to be sure. Otherwise, has anybody ever use the…

    Graeme Geldenhuys, Jan Jelowicki
    2
  28. FPC 2.0.2 vs 2.0.4 xmlread

    I had an old application that worked fine with 2.0.2 but doesn't work with 2.0.4. The problem is that it reads XML and then uses the data to do some processing.…

    Alexander Todorov, Michael Van Canneyt
    3
  29. typed constants...

    is this bit of syntactic weirdness a fpc element, or from delphi. I've largely been away from pascal since the early 90s, mostly only using it to write dos-y…

    David Mears, Jonas Maebe, Marc Santhoff
    5
  30. fpc arm crossbuild error

    I have removed the FC5 rpm versions of fpc and installed the source and x86_64 binary so everything is the same... # fpc Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.4 [2006/08/20]…

    Terry Kemp
    0

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