The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.4.4 was built with FPC 2.6.4.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6.0_release_notes http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0

The release is available for download on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.6" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10, 32 or 64 bit.
Win98 and WinNT IDE needs FPC 2.6.4 and building with flag -dWIN9XPLATFORM.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.11, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at:
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/ and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

Mattias

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Mattias Gaertner <

wrote: The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.

[...]

Great job! \o/

(SF still "Looking for the latest version? Download lazarus-1.4.4-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe")

silvioprog wrote

(SF still "Looking for the latest version? Download lazarus-1.4.4-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe")

svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6 This is rev 51666

Hm, i might be missing something, but where is the option that enables the compiler progress status?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Mattias Gaertner <

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Kostas Michalopoulos wrote

Hm, i might be missing something, but where is the option that enables the compiler progress status?

That (compiler progress status) has been removed, quit some time ago.

Bart

I have ComboBox which
takes information about filling from a text file. On Lazarus 1.6 cyrillic symbols are like this:?????-??????, ????????. How can I correct this? In Lazarus 1.4 they was correct. Regards,
Kamen

Kostas Michalopoulos > wrote

Hm, i might be missing something, but where is the option that enables the compiler progress status?

That (compiler progress status) has been removed, quit some time ago.

Bart

I have ComboBox which takes information about filling from a text file. On Lazarus 1.6 cyrillic symbols are like this:?????-??????, ????????. How can I correct this? In Lazarus 1.4 they was correct.

What platform?

Mattias

Windows 7 64bit. Lazarus 1.6 32bit.
Regards,
Kamen

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:10:25 +0200 (EET)

What platform?

Mattias

Windows 7 64bit. Lazarus 1.6 32bit. [...] > I have ComboBox which > takes information about filling from a text file. On Lazarus 1.6 cyrillic symbols are like this:?????-??????, ????????. How can I correct this? In Lazarus 1.4 they was correct.

What encoding has the text file? CP1251?
What function do you use for converting the strings to UTF-8?

Mattias

"What encoding has the text file? CP1251?"
ANSI. Only this encoding worked with Lazarus 1.4.
"What function do you use for converting the strings to UTF-8?" SysToUtf8(s)
Regards,
Kamen

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:25:01 +0200 (EET)

What encoding has the text file? CP1251?

What function do you use for converting the strings to UTF-8?

Mattias

SysToUTF8 was changed, because in the majority of cases it was used for talking to the RTL.

You can use WinCPToUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8 instead.

Mattias

In which modul are
WinCPToUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8? ( Error: Identifier not found "WinCPToUTF8")

I want to make my application both on Windows and Linux. In Linux can I use the same functions or have any other?

Is SysToUtf8 works on Linux? If I use encoding UTF-8 for the fail it works. Regards,
Kamen

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:39:40 +0200 (EET)

SysToUTF8 was changed, because in the majority of cases it was used for

talking to the RTL.

You can use WinCPToUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8 instead.

Mattias

In which modul are WinCPToUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8? ( Error: Identifier not found "WinCPToUTF8")

WinCPToUTF8 from unit LazUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8 from unit LConvEncoding

I want to make my application both on Windows and Linux.

The encoding of text files depends on what program you used to create it. Windows applications usually create either system code page or UTF-8, sometimes UTF-16 LE. Linux apps mostly UTF-8. Maybe the function GuessEncoding from LConvEncoding can help.

In Linux can I use the same functions or have any other? Is SysToUtf8 works on Linux? If I use encoding UTF-8 for the fail it works.

You can use WinCPToUTF8 under Linux too. It simply keeps the UTF-8 there.

Mattias

Many thanks,
Mattias!
Regards,
Kamen

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:46:05 +0200 (EET)

Kamen Ketev > wrote

In which modul are WinCPToUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8? ( Error: Identifier not found "WinCPToUTF8")

WinCPToUTF8 from unit LazUTF8 or CP1251ToUTF8 from unit LConvEncoding

I want to make my application both on Windows and Linux.

The encoding of text files depends on what program you used to create

it. Windows applications usually create either system code page or

UTF-8, sometimes UTF-16 LE. Linux apps mostly UTF-8.

Maybe the function GuessEncoding from LConvEncoding can help.

You can use WinCPToUTF8 under Linux too. It simply keeps the UTF-8

there.

Mattias