RE: [fpc-pascal] fpc for win98

2003-03-17 Thread Lee, John
Win32 or dos (go32v2) fpc work perfectly well on win98. I run them on win95 & win me. Suggest you use the latest release v1.0.6, available from the many mirror sites. The complete downloads for win32 and dos are about 15-20 Mbytes in size. If you only want to compile, link & run (ie you don

Re: [fpc-pascal]Can I program a linux device driver with fpc?

2003-03-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 09:20, Peter Vreman wrote: > In theory it should be possible. But you need to import and export the > correct kernel functions. Most of the normal RTL routines can should not be > used, including the heapmanager. Maybe it's better to create a minimal RTL > for linux kernel

Re: [fpc-pascal]Can I program a linux device driver with fpc?

2003-03-17 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:22:31AM +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, milimeter wrote: > > > Hello, everybody > > > > Is there any possibility that we write a linux device driver with fpc? If we > > can, how? > > In theory it is possible. In practice, this has never

Re: [fpc-pascal]Can I program a linux device driver with fpc?

2003-03-17 Thread Peter Vreman
At 03:03 17-3-2003, you wrote: Hello, everybody Is there any possibility that we write a linux device driver with fpc? If we can, how? In theory it should be possible. But you need to import and export the correct kernel functions. Most of the normal RTL routines can should not be used, inclu

Re: [fpc-pascal]Can I program a linux device driver with fpc?

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, milimeter wrote: > Hello, everybody > > Is there any possibility that we write a linux device driver with fpc? If we > can, how? In theory it is possible. In practice, this has never been done. You would have to write a 'kernel-rtl' i.e. a RTL (system unit) which maps all