Well, I just updated my CVS, I have a compiler downloaded today from a daily snapshot on www.freepascal.org.
I made clean everything. Then went to /lazarus directory, then make - everything builds OK, no errors like this (under Linux). So maybe you should :
1. Get and install official .rpm version of compiler. This will generate correct /etc/ppc386.cfg for you.
2. Then get the pre-compiled compiler from a daily snapshot. Overwrite the compiler from the .rpm version by the version found in the snapshot. Make sure there is no 'stale' version of compiler lying around in the path.
That works for me, your milage may vary :-)
Michal Bukovjan
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No problems with compiler, rtl, fcl, packages apart from some
toplevel makefile problems but compiling in lower directories
seemed to cure all makefile errors.
Problems found with CVS clean checkout of lazarus, lcl only compile.
1: Pascal Construct in vclglobals.pp and lcllinux.pp
Error reported:
lcllinux.pp(58,14) Error: Illegal expression
lcllinux.pp(58,14) Error: Error in type definition
lcllinux.pp(58,14) Fatal: Syntax error, ; expected but identifier LONGWORD
found
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Offending code:
HDC = type LongWord;
2: Construct in forms.pp
Error reported:
forms.pp(114,71) Fatal: Syntax error, ; expected but identifier ISFORM found
Offending code:
property OnClose: TCloseEvent read FOnClose write FOnClose stored IsForm;
other code also has stored attributes problems.
After spending a few hours trying to comment out all illegal contructs etc
I came to the conclusion that the compiler is not supporting a lot
of the language constructs being used.
Compiling the compiler from the CVS sources was no problem so I presume
I have the latest and greatest compiler. Looking through the FPC manuals
I could find no reference to the above constructs, so I presume they are
new in some version of the compiler somewhere. Also I noticed {$mode
objfpc}
switch, again with nothing to tell me what this does, though I have not
grepped the compiler sources yet for this.
The shear number of errors encountered trying to comment out code just to
get
it to compile was too great and I eventually came up against the usage of
the
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foo = type bar temp fix I made which was to get rid of the word type. Of
course further down the chain some modules did not like
type
foo = bar;
so I have now ground to a halt.
If anyone could help me just getting the sources to compile, then maybe I
can
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start to help a little.
One thing I noticed in the vclglobals is
THandle = Integer;
hwnd = THandle;
TCaption = string;
//TMessage = Pointer;
HMENU = type Longword;
HPEN = type Longword;
HBitmap = type Longword;
would it not be better to define all handles as THandle, make it much
easier
for the future?
Many thanks
Peter.
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