> i use DOS regularly (right this moment, my 'lab' got messed up by a > foreign > handand i lost a AT power supply so no old PC running; this will get fixed > today) > > i will do my best to make it up to date and to help Pierre
The current 2.0 fixes branch should be more stable. Could you please try to download and install ftp://ftpmaster.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/i386-go32v2/fpc-2.0.5dos.zip The file datestamp should be January 15. 2007, or later. Let's say that you unpack this into /pas/snp205 directory. he snapshot ppc386 will then be in /pas/snp205/bin/go32v2 directory. Unzip the file and test the IDE, by compliling and stepping through a simple source. (like the ide/test.pas file). Please report if this is working OK for you, or any problems you might encounter. A second step would be to recompile the IDE from the current 2.0.5 sources, with debugger information. First download and install ftp://ftpmaster.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/source/fpcbuild.zip You will also need to download and install the GDB libraries: the zip file is: ftp://ftpmaster.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/libgdb/v6.1.1/go32v2-v601.zip Unzip all librairies (lib*.a files) into \pas\libgdb\go32v2 for example change to fpcbuild/fpsrc/ide directory You need to inform where the GDB librairies are, for this you will need to set GDBLIBDIR variable. set GDBLIBDIR=/pas/ligdb/go32v2 should work for this. After this, you will need to recompile several directories make -C ../rtl DEBUG=1 make -C ../packages/base/graph DEBUG=1 make -C ../packages/base/regexpr DEBUG=1 make -C ../packages/base/gdbint DEBUG=1 make -C ../fv DEBUG=1 make clean all DEBUG=1 OPT=-gl If everything works fine, you should have at that point a fp.exe file that is about 10Mb in size. The problem for me, (I am stick for the moment on a windows 2000 computer), is that the IDE tends to crash randomly, but I don't know if it comes from the IDE or from the poor Dos emulation of Windows 2000... Tell me if you succeed in compiling this and if the generated IDE is usable, or gives you useful information when crashing (the -gl option, should create a verbose stack on crashes). Thanks for trying this out, By the way, testers for emx, os/2 or wdosx targets would also be most welcomed, Pierre _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
