On 02.12.2012 10:20, Alexander Klenin wrote:
In my ongoing efforts to prevent elimination of Pascal/FPC from a set of languages used to teach programming, I have recently encountered another problem: although FPC does include "gmp" unit for arbitrary-precision calculations, programs compiled with it require "gmp" dynamic library. This library currently is a separate download, which outlaws its usage in programming competitions, forcing participants to use Java or Python instead.
We can not bundle such libaries as different (Linux) distributions will have different dependencies like different versions of the libc and then this library would not load anyway (and Free Pascal would be accused for being crap because of this). This is why we rely on the distros themselves to supply such dynamic libraries.
Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
