Greetings,

It appears that Marc has the Makefile in order. What we need to do now is confirm that the HowTos are correct. Could someone attempt to do a fresh install as if it was their first time? I will attempt this using Linux tomorrow but need some others to try it and to have some Win32 people try it. Follow the HowTo step by step and see if everything works correctly.

If you find errors please forward them to me. I will update the page and then I think we will be ready to do a major announcement on the various news services. I will be making general press releases to everyplace I can find that will be interested.

How about some of your lurkers out there. Here is a chance to lend a hand. :-)

Thanks for you help.

+ From: Jarto Tarpio
+
+ Here's my report from testing the Win32 howto on NT4sp4.

<snip>

+ 5. Create a batch file...
+
+ Dies at make clean :
+
+ C:\pp\source\compiler>make clean
+ The name specified is not recognized as an
+ internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
+ >& was unexpected at this time.

Eehhh..... PPL we forgot to mention that you need gnu make (and that it should be in your path before borland make)

Marc

Eehhh..... PPL we forgot to mention that you need gnu make (and that it should be in your path before borland make)

I don't think that's the problem:

C:\pp\source\compiler>which make
c:/pp/bin/win32/make.exe

rtl, fcl\win32 and packages\gtk compiled without problems. Building lazarus failed also:

C:\pp\source\lazarus>make -n >junk.bat
make.exe: *** interfaces: No such file or directory (ENOENT). Stop.
make.exe[1]: *** [interfaces_all] Error 2
make.exe: *** [lcl_all] Error 2

/jarto

mooseman wrote

i will have a look at the win32 version, but unfortunately, i am out of town and will not be able to add my experiences until the weekend.

Thanks. That will help. :-)

I am not going. I may send some of my programmers though.

Speaking of this conference, when is everyone going to come to Wisconsin and get together with Cliff and I? Cliff and I both live in Wisconsin so we can meet in the middle somewhere. :-)

Shane

>> 04/11/00 11:12PM >>>

Shane are you going to go???

BTW I just got the damn QT events working again.

Cliff

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i will have a look at the win32 version, but unfortunately, i am out of town and will not be able to add my experiences until the weekend.

jim.

I consider visiting, along with a programmer or two. After all, Linux and Lazarus / Kylix is going to be our strategic platform once we move all desktop to Linux for GUI apps development...

Not sure about Wisconsin, though :-) It's a long way from Europe...

Michal Bukovjan

Here's my report from testing the Win32 howto on NT4sp4.

Downloads:

The FPC download URL is a bit old. Latest is w3209914full.zip http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html would also be a nicer path to the GTK DLLs+source.

3. Downloading from CVS

If you install the whole FPC, it also installs sources in pp/source and CVS doesn't like that. After removing everything in there CVS worked flawlessly.

5. Create a batch file...

Dies at make clean :

C:\pp\source\compiler>make clean
The name specified is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

& was unexpected at this time.

/jarto

+ From: Jarto Tarpio
+
+ > Eehhh..... PPL we forgot to mention that you need gnu make
+ (and that it should be in your path before borland make) +
+ I don't think that's the problem:
+
+ C:\pp\source\compiler>which make
+ c:/pp/bin/win32/make.exe

Your original message said something about an unknown command, so I assumed make

+ rtl, fcl\win32 and packages\gtk compiled without problems.
+ Building lazarus failed also:
+
+ C:\pp\source\lazarus>make -n >junk.bat
+ make.exe: *** interfaces: No such file or directory (ENOENT).
+ Stop.

Ah, another omission

Section 6 of the Win32 howto should say

cvs -z3 update -Dp base docs fcl lazarus compiler rtl packages

You probaby don't have a C:\pp\source\lazarus\lcl\interfaces dir

Marc

Shane are you going to go???

BTW I just got the damn QT events working again.

Cliff

Check out Inprise's info about the conference. It has a ton of Linux stuff, including the intro to Kylix. This conference is in July so they must plan to be done/close by then.
http://www.inprise.com/conf2000/tracks/platforms/linux.html

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I am going to try to arrange to be there. I have to go do a little begging so I will not have to foot the bill.

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+ From: Marc Weustink

+ Section 6 of the Win32 howto should say
+
+ cvs -z3 update -Dp base docs fcl lazarus compiler rtl packages

Woooops that should be

cvs -z3 update -dP base docs fcl lazarus compiler rtl packages

Marc

They don't relize that they actually moved Silicon Valley to Wisconsin? He He.

Wonder if they could get accustomed to our accent Shane. They might not know what we mean by saying run the ole ppc386 compiler der hey.

Cliff Baeseman
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Your correct. It has changed to ...14full.zip.

These are the kind of things we need to catch and correct before any major announcement.

Win32 How to cannot access the ftp for
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Win32/win3209912full.zip

Seems like the link is broken. I am trying to do a install as per the document.

Cliff Baeseman
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Do you have an issue with long file names on your machine?

All the other directories are 8 chars. or less but interfaces is 10 characters long.

You probaby don't have a C:\pp\source\lazarus\lcl\interfaces dir

Well I do have it. I also checked out everything again to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. Still I can't cycle the compiler or compile lazarus on Win32.

junk.bat contains this after "make -n >junk.bat"

c:/pp/bin/win32/make.exe -C lcl all
make.exe[1]: Entering directory `c:/pp/source/lazarus/lcl' rm -f allunits.exe
c:/pp/bin/win32/make.exe -C interfaces all
make.exe: Entering an unknown directory
make.exe: Leaving an unknown directory
make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/pp/source/lazarus/lcl'

The error was:
C:\pp\source\lazarus>make -n >junk.bat
make.exe: *** interfaces: No such file or directory (ENOENT). Stop.
make.exe[1]: *** [interfaces_all] Error 2
make.exe: *** [lcl_all] Error 2

/jarto