I'm getting some type conversion errors which I didn't get with FPC 2.6.4 from ports in 5.7. I'm not sure what's at the root of it but I've got a post on the Lazarus forum at:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=32293.msg208126#msg208126 -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
