I think I've solved and fixed the crash some of you are getting on Win32. Please update your source and tell me if it worked for you.

As for the windres problem, I don't know what's happening there. My best theory is that the people that are having trouble with it are using an older version of Windows that has DOS compatibility, which is circumventing the update.

Keith

Win98SE-lite (no IE) + Mozilla.

I'm updating CVS now.

I think the difference is in how windows is installed. If it's installed with ntfs then DOS isn't supported. (I'm hearing this third hand so don't quote me). In any case, we can't rely on it.

Chris

From: "Luis R. Hilario"

> Windows '98 / IE 5.5 (and Mozilla :)

All editions of Windows 95 and 98 had DOS compatibility (so you could run your existing DOS and Windows 3.x programs). Windows ME removed it and, AFAIK, Windows NT (which includes Windows 2000 and XP) never had it. I came to the assumption that windres failing was related to the Windows version when Marco revealed he was using Windows 98 and it was failing, but it worked for me in Windows ME and continued to work when I upgraded to XP.

You need to enable long (ANSI) strings with the -Sh option. This option is set automatically for you in the Makefile.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----

ppc386 -S2

lazarus.pp -Fudebugger -Fudesigner -Fucomponents\synedit -Fucomponents\codet ools -Fiinclude -Fiinclude/win32 -Fulcl -Filcl/include -Fulcl/interfaces/win 32

+ From: Chris
+
+ I think the difference is in how windows is installed. If
+ it's installed with ntfs then DOS isn't supported. (I'm hearing
+ this third hand so don't quote me). In any case, we can't
+ rely on it.

OW ??? I'm here on NT4 and at home W2K both on NTFS and both support DOS.

Marc

Windows '98 / IE 5.5 (and Mozilla :)

I is using a clean copy now (before used that of Linux). After learning to use WinCVS is using it to obtain the sources for Windows.

I is compiling to Lazarus of two forms: Manually (l.bat) and using make.exe (with a little aid).

Using make.exe
--------------
windres -i lazarus.rc -o lazarus.res
make

Yes!

Using l.bat
-----------
windres -i lazarus.rc -o lazarus.res
l.bat

Compiling .\lcl\interfaces\win32\winext.pas
winext.pas(109,13) Error: Illegal type conversion
winext.pas(150,32) Warning: Local variable LASTP does not seem to be
initialized
winext.pas(180,26) Error: Illegal type conversion
winext.pas(182,26) Error: Illegal type conversion
winext.pas(212) Fatal: There were 3 errors compiling module, stopping

All the errors are resolved putting a "@".

Function StrToPChar(Const Str: String): PChar;
Begin
  TmpStr := PChar(@Str[1]);
  Result := TmpStr;
End;
Function StrToPChar(Const Str: String): PChar; // Is the same thing,
truth?
Begin
  Result := PChar(@Str[1]);
End;

And now it compiles.

Of the two forms Lazarus and the examples "function".

Keith Bowes wrote

I think I've solved and fixed the crash some of you are getting on Win32. Please update your source and tell me if it worked for you.

Same as Marco. It does startup and you can see some of the windows being generated but then it just shuts down.

As for the examples. I can now run most of them. They look like crap with all of the buttons and items overlaying each other but you can see that it is tring to work. Some of the features don't work correctly but it has come a LOOOOOOOOnnnng way. I can't imagine it will take too much effort to smooth out some of the rough edges.

Oh yeah. Win98SE.

As an interesting note the hello.exe that you sent me previously does run on Win98SE but doesn't work at all on Win95. Maybe some sort of indicator.

From: "Michael A. Hess" :

Yes, I'm trying to resolve these issues. But I'm thinking that these issues may be partially due to the examples being designed for GTK and totally taking other interfaces for granted. Regardless, the thing that's totally baffling me now is the exception I get when running the IDE.

Current CVS shows no errors (compiler last midnight CET) while compiling, but I patched the makefile by giving the entire path using the --preprocessor commandline to windres yesterday.

Lazarus now starts, gives lot of output in the console window, but then shuts down. again.

I put the log to the console on www.stack.nl/~marcov/lazaruslog