Greetings,

I have done a new layout for the Lazarus pages. The new design gives more real estate for actual content. It also helps differentiate menu from content.

If you have done a language translation in the past please down load the latest english.zip file

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/english.zip

and make the changes where needed. Several new menus items have been added along with some page content changes.

Got ya.

I'll work on the HowTo modifications this weekend as well. If I have time maybe I can get the bug tracking system on line as well. In any case I am shooting for making the announcement on Tuesday. We will get cleaned up everything we can and what we can't we will just keep working on. So Tuesday is going to be the announcment on Freshmeat and anyplace else I can get it in print.

Slashdot jumps to mind.

Michael.

Mike looks a lot nicer, fits a whole lot more on the screen. Hopefully I will get this win32 build tool done today so that we can make a announcement. I am just building a simple compiler front end for ppc. You select a program and has a couple of list boxes for the file locations etc. This will allow them to circumvent the makefile long file name problems. It also means they will not have to worry about exported paths either.

Cliff

codepunk wrote

I am just building a simple compiler front end for ppc. You select a program and has a couple of list boxes for the file locations etc. This will allow them to circumvent the makefile long file name problems. It also means they will not have to worry about exported paths either.

I don't know if this is much help. To build lazarus you only have to type make. The long filename problems exists (to my knowledge) only on the WinNT platform and can be solved by using the latest cygwin make. The only problem now is that the combination of the compiler and linker doesn't work on the WinNT platform. The compiler generates a link.res with truncated LFNs which the linker refuses. I'm still investigating this.

As I wrote to MH:

~ I've read it, I might add some comments regarding win32-NT ~ compatibility. At this moment I'm at a point to say that ~ the compiler isn't true win32 (only win95/98). If we make ~ an anouncement I would suggest to make clear that ~ Lazarus/FPC will NOT work (I repeat NOT work) on a NT ~ platform, unless I find some steps which makes it work. ~ (FYI the problems with make are solved, the linker is now ~ a problem)

Marc (a bit fustrated)