Hi list,

Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases?

Regards,
Reinier

Reinier Olislagers wrote

Hi list, Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases?

I've never had much success with ReactOS, but that could easily be down to the way I'd got Qemu set up. From my local archive I can see that Graeme's used FPC+FPgui on it, and I can see Sven had Lazarus on it about 18 months ago.

Hi Reinier,

Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases?

I have good experience using FPC and fpGUI and Synapse.

Here is a page I try to keep updated as I go along: http://www.turbocontrol.com/reactos.htm

What have you encountered?

Paul

Hi Paul,

I installed Laz on 0.3.14, IIRC, and it failed - either during or after install.

Waiting for a new version; it might be worthwile to add Laz to their repository/software download tool.

I periodically have a look; it might be a good candidate for running a build/test server (e.g. as a Jenkins slave).

Thanks,
Reinier

You might want to try the Win32 release on this page: http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm

And maybe try a recent "dbg" or "rel" from this page: http://iso.reactos.org/bootcd/

Il 10/10/2012 14:45, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto:

Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases?

Me.
Installed lazarus 32 bit and it worked: if your lazarus/pascal programs does not touch API or system structures, they will probably work. But I just tried some sample app and didn't really test for stability... reactOS as a whole is still way too unstable to use for common duty, I'm 95% sure that any serious stability test would fail :o)

That's nice to hear.

But I just tried some sample app and didn't really test for stability... reactOS as a whole is still way too unstable to use for common duty, I'm 95% sure that any serious stability test would fail :o)

Agreed about stability. In earlier versions I could crash it by lifting my eyebrow ;) To their defence: it's in development and it's not even beta.

Perhaps it's about time though to get Lazarus into their application downloader program in the development section if possible... that might help increase interest for Lazarus ;)

When they release a new version I'll have a look again...

Il 11/10/2012 07:52, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto:

Perhaps it's about time though to get Lazarus into their application downloader program in the development section if possible... that might help increase interest for Lazarus ;)

Or for ReactOS :-)
however I think it would definitely be a good thing, yes.

Reinier Olislagers wrote

Hi list, Has anybody had any good experiences with FPC and/or Lazarus on recent ReactOS releases?

I successfully run and installed Lazarus on a development version (what would become 0.3.15 or 0.4). The only "problem" was that the icons are upside down, but that is a bug known from Wine and perhaps already fixed in the mean time. As you can see on the ReactOS forum I wasn't the only one: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10972#p90911

An important note: the development version improved MUCH on the state of 0.3.14 (especially considering features like USB and WIFI ;) )

Regards,
Sven