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  1. Linking object file

    I was wondering if it's possible to link FPC object files by using the $Link directive? At least I have troubles in getting this to work and therefore I'm asking here.…

    Darius Blaszyk, Tomas Hajny, Unknown author
    4
  2. Cloning objects?

    Is there a drop-dead simple way to clone an object? I've got a small tree of classes (tBaseProfile, and four descendants of such). Only the descendant classes are…

    Timothy Groves, Andreas Schneider, Howard Page-Clark
    4
  3. Searching Text Files

    I'm writing a little personal program in Lazarus that manages pdf files. One of the things I want to do is search for text/phrases within the pdfs. Has anybody tried to…

    Martin Collins, Mark Morgan Lloyd, Michael Schnell
    3
  4. Dynamic array initialization

    Hello list! Are dynamic arrays initialized with nil after the setlength call? Doc[1] doesn't say a word about that and my tests say yes, they are initialized with nil.…

    Joao Morais, leledumbo
    1
  5. RTL debuginfo on GDB 7.4+ and OSX Mavericks

    Hello list. I've just upgraded to OSX Mavericks. GDB is no longer installed with xcode5 so I downloaded, compiled and installed GDB 7.6.2 myself. I can debug my own…

    Joao Morais, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Jonas Maebe
    5
  6. Library.StringFunction() : PChar => NO

    Hello great fpc people. It is about functions dealing with string inside a library... If i use that kind of function inside the library : It will be the memory manager…

    Fred van Stappen, leledumbo, Reinier Olislagers
    14
  7. dynamic array reference count

    I just want to confirm one thing: var a, b: array of Integer; begin SetLength(a, 100); SetLength(b, 100); a := b; end. Now "a" will point to the same memory block as…

    Xiangrong Fang, Jürgen Hestermann, Michael Schnell
    4
  8. nested inline

    Is nested inline allowed? i.e. will the compiler generate inlined code for the following source: procedure a; inline; begin end; procedure b; inline; begin a; end; if I…

    Xiangrong Fang, leledumbo, Sven Barth
    3
  9. procedure modifiers

    I wonder where should I put procedure modifiers, in the interface section, or implementation section, or both? e.g. interface function test(data: Integer): Integer;…

    Xiangrong Fang, Michael Van Canneyt
    1
  10. Installer (2.6.4 win32) and path issues

    I installed 2.6.4 for win32. I removed the 2.6.4rc1 installation. After that I wanted to rebuild Lazarus, so I did a "make clean all" in Lazarus dir, but got only errors.

    Bart, Marco van de Voort, Reinier Olislagers
    5
  11. TProcess on windows: incompatibility between poUsePipes and InheritHandles:=false

    In order to use poUsePipes, InheritHandles must be true (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686331%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) This is a limitation of…

    Luca Olivetti, Sven Barth
    4
  12. Elegant way to switch sort mechanism in TSortedCollection?

    I'm working on a project that utilizes a TSortedCollection to help keep items sorted during processing. There is a need to re-sort the collection by different criteria…

    Jim Leonard, Frederic Da Vitoria, Philippe
    11
  13. Request for help

    I'm helping the editor of Blaise Pascal magazine to develop some components for Lazarus & Delphi (for the Leap Motion). We need someone with experience in 3D-rendering…

    Michael Van Canneyt
    0
  14. $LINKLIB MSVCRT on windows/osx

    Hey: Has anybody got a clue how to statically link the windows c run time with lazarus/freepascal on Windows 7/8 x32 or x64? , there are all sorts of references to…

    Unknown author, Dmitry Boyarintsev, Ludo Brands
    11
  15. FPC 2.6.4 release!

    Finally, FPC 2.6.4 has landed. FPC 2.6.4 is an update to 2.6.2 and 2.6.0 that contains most library progress over the 2.6.2. It will probably conclude the 2.6.x branch.…

    Marco van de Voort, Peter Brooks, silvioprog
    2
  16. Freepascal on OSX 10.9 Mavericks $LINKLIB gcc broken

    Now that OSX Mavericks 10.9 is running full speed, it has broken the {$LINKLIB gcc} compiler directive. {$LINKLIB c} still WORKS. But {$LINKLIB gcc} does not. The reason…

    Unknown author, Jonas Maebe, Mattias Gaertner
    11
  17. FPC for ARMv4

    Hi I have a board running Linux - it reports itself as armv4tl: uname -a Linux phidgetsbc 3.1.6 #3 PREEMPT Fri Jan 6 13:05:50 MST 2012 armv4tl GNU/Linux cat /etc/issue…

    Jon, Jonas Maebe, Sven Barth
    5
  18. Shared memory on various OSes

    When a DLL/so is loaded dynamically by multiple program instances, are globals shared or would this require explicit use of OS-level shared memory? The application is…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd, Michael Van Canneyt
    2
  19. Mantis maintenance

    Not sure, if Mantis is maintained by FPC or Lazarus team (or actually either. I've provided a plugin for it to preserve backtrace formatting.…

    Dmitry Boyarintsev
    0
  20. DBF components are maintained now

    Just wanted to let you know about http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#TDBF_unit_deprecation_removed Currently I'm adding test cases to dbtestframework…

    Reinier Olislagers, Attila Kovács, Graeme Geldenhuys
    3
  21. (no subject)

    Hello, guys! Firstly, thank you for such a great project! It's very nice to use it in a study process in a school/university. And now a question :) I have some trouble…

    Barracuda, Jonas Maebe, Sven Barth
    3
  22. For Slackware users

    I wrote some scripts to convert FPC & Lazarus binaries to Slackware packages. If you're interested you can find them to…

    Yann Mérignac
    0
  23. Mirror empty

    The fpc mirror http://www.hu.freepascal.org/ is empty. Who is responsible for it? Mattias

    Mattias Gaertner, Florian Klämpfl, LacaK
    5
  24. Generic String Functions

    What is the relation between Generic Functions and (static) DXE String encoding schemes ? Can you (e.g.) do a (silly) Generic Function that takes two strings of any (but…

    Michael Schnell, Marco van de Voort, Sven Barth
    29
  25. Lazarus 1.2 Release

    The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2. This release was built with fpc 2.6.2. Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:…

    Mattias Gaertner
    0
  26. A linking error in a SDL example

    A friend ask me about the audio playing with SDL. I tried to do an example. As I use Linux, with the following command, I consider all packages neeeded would be…

    luciano de souza, Yann Mérignac
    2
  27. License change for UPasConf, GContnrs, CmdLine & data2pas

    As I said last week in the "Announces & License question" discussion, I have released new versions of UPasConf, GContnrs, CmdLine and data2pas. No new functionality,…

    Yann Mérignac
    0
  28. Parsing Smalltalk-style numbers

    Does anybody have any Pascal code to hand which will parse Smalltalk-style numbers, i.e. written with an explicit radix indicator? For example, 8r34.1 (octal) parses to…

    Mark Morgan Lloyd
    0
  29. Spurious SIGSEGV on ARMHF with application compiled with fpc trunk

    fpc trunk r26906, cross compiled fpcup for ARMHF; running on Odroid U3 Xubuntu; ran under gdb: fpcup stops with a SIGSEGV: ... fpcup: info: Created launcher script for…

    Reinier Olislagers
    2
  30. Enum scope

    The FPC stable version allow to declare a new type, as private/protected/public, inside a class. So, I propose migrate enums to your "own" classes... why? Well, I have…

    Marcos Douglas, Mattias Gaertner, Sven Barth
    5

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