Thought this should be a separate thread... sorry it if ends up confusing things.
I'm trying to get FPGUI to work on Windows 10 with just FPC without Lazarus, and I'm just not having any luck. These seem to be three ways to install FPGUI on Windows. 1. Build it from a command line 2. Compile it with the Text IDE 3. Install it with FPCUPDELUXE I haven't got any of these to work. When I try to build from the command line I get fpg_oledragdrop.pas(113,23) Error: No matching implementation for interface method "SetData(const tagFORMATETC;var TagSTGMEDIUM;LongBool):LongInt; StdCall;" found See original message below Next I thought I would try FPCUPDELUXE, so I used it to install a fresh copy of 3.2.2 and then went to modules to install FPGUI it seems like it's going to work, but then it gets an error: Exception: EInOutError. File not open The info has this: info: Universal Installer (GetModule: fpgui): Getting module fpgui. info: Universal Installer (GetModule: fpgui): Going to download/update from GIT repository https://github.com/graemeg/fpgui. info: Universal Installer (GetModule: fpgui): Please wait: this can take some time (if repo is big or has a large history). info: Performing SVN/GIT/HG/FTP/URL checkout/download. Please wait, could take some time. info: Universal Installer (GetModule: fpgui): Download/update from GIT repository ok. info: Universal Installer (GetModule: fpgui): No fpgui patches defined. Then it just stops, and I don't see any fpgui directory in my units/{Processor} folder which is what I was expecting to happen... maybe this isn't what's supposed to happen... but it doesn't seem to finish. So finally I tried the instructions for compiling it with the Text IDE, I added all the directories required as per the instructions, and randomly pick a few examples to try to compile, and fpg_base.pas on line 41 I get: fpg_base.pas(41,32) Error: Parameters or result types cannot contain local type definitions. Use a separate type definition in a type block. The line is: TfpgChar = type String[4]; It doesn't seem to like the [4] I have tried all kinds of various compiler options like Use AnsiStrings and just a bunch of random settings like turning optimizations on and off... because it seems like this would be more of a compiler setting than a bug in the program, because a bug would have been fixed years ago... so I'm guessing it's something wrong with how I have it set up, but what I would need to fix? I have no idea... other than changing the source code... I guess I could change it to an array of characters or something... but why am I getting an error at all? Nothing I change allows this line to compile. So I thought maybe it's because I'm trying to use the current trunk, so I tried the same thing with 3.2.2, and on there I get: fpg_impl.pas(26,3) Fatal: Can't find unit x used by fpg_impl Just for fun I commeneded fpg_impl out and 3.2.2 does get past TfpgChar = type String[4]; without error... but then there are more errors because of commenting out fpg_impl. So I feel I might be getting close.. but what is Unit X? and where do I get it? Is there some dependency I need for FPGUI? For even more fun I tried to change TfpgChar = type String[4]; to just TfpgChar = String[4]; in the current trunk, and then that line does compile, but then I'm back to being unable to find Unit X. I'm not sure if I have some setting in a way that FPGUI doesn't expect it to be, or what the issue is, I just don't know where to look. I don't know what Unit X is or why I don't have it. It looks like a really cool package and I hope I can get it working. I have some GDI windows in my FPC projects, but FPGUI looks a lot easier to implement and a lot less confusing. James ------Original Message----- >>That builds the whole GUI toolkit from the command line. Works on Windows, MacOS, Linux and FreeBSD. I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm having some difficulty. When I follow the instructions from Install.txt I get this: R:\fpgui_src_1.4.1\fpgui-1.4.1\src>build "You've got the correct output lib directory" Compiling GDI CoreLib Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/05/15] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Win32 for i386 Compiling corelib\gdi\fpgui_toolkit.pas Compiling .\corelib\fpg_base.pas Compiling corelib\gdi\fpg_impl.pas Compiling .\corelib\fpg_main.pas Compiling .\corelib\fpg_constants.pas Writing Resource String Table file: fpg_constants.rsj Compiling corelib\gdi\fpg_interface.pas Compiling corelib\gdi\fpg_gdi.pas Compiling corelib\gdi\fpg_oledragdrop.pas fpg_oledragdrop.pas(113,23) Error: No matching implementation for interface method "SetData(const tagFORMATETC;var TagSTGMEDIUM;LongBool):LongInt; StdCall;" found fpg_oledragdrop.pas(203,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted Error: I:\Programming\FPC\3.2.2\bin\i386-Win32\ppc386.exe returned an error exitcode Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? This is all way over my head I'm afraid. James _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
