Pierre and me managed to fix a lot of bugs in the *BSD platforms. As a result, even though still a bit raw, the OpenBSD port starts to get usable.
A snapshot was uploaded to the FTP site ( ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v10/openbsd/snapshot-openbsd-1.0.7.tar.bz2 The file is 16 MB (57 when unpacked), it is so huge because all files contain debug+lineinfo AND a test version of the IDE with debugging support. Most should work, but a lot of things are untested. Some critical points: - You'll need a newer binutils. Simply install binutils from the ports tree (I took the stable one). I made a "fpc" account for FPC development, and installed symlinks to the newer as and ld in my ~/bin and rehashed) - There are still problems with Delphi exceptions if these are derived from signals (like floating point overflows/div by zero etc) Help welcome here. (probably a structure not updated correctly) - The different packages are hardly tested except ncurses and the ones needed for the IDE. - If it mumbles it can't find ncurses, try linking libncurses.a to libcurses.a or edit link.res and change the reference to -lncurses to -lcurses and run ./ppas.sh - The IDE works somewhat, but debugging is often off by a line, nothing openbsd specific has been done for the keyboard and screen. (OpenBSD supports vga font loading with wsfontload, but I don't know how to load a font with linedrawing. It seems that none is included) - The "newer" linker seems to prefer the "default" library locations above own specified ones. To link the IDE, I had to specify full paths to all .a files in the last section of link.res to get it to work. Installation: copy these dirs to $PREFIX, symlink bin/ppc386 to lib/fpc/1.0.7/ppc386 and rehash. (don't copy this (readme) file) rm readme.txt mv * /usr/local with suitable rights should do the trick. Bugs and OpenBSD-port related questions can be reported/asked in the FPC maillists (prefered) or mailed directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
