Re: [fpc-pascal] OOT: Pascal (especially FPC) on Linux community

2006-01-29 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Sunday 29 January 2006 19.04, Ron Weidner wrote: > * Provide a "native" GUI for FPC (maybe by > porting/extending CGUI?) > There is MSEide + MSEgui: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/msegui/ Martin ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Bob Richards
L505 wrote: > > Which installation/ide are you using for FPC, just FP-IDE or commandline, or > Lazarus? Free Pascal Compiler version 2.0.0 [2005/05/15] for i386 I don't use an IDE, I simply use vi to edit source, and then "fpc sourcefile" to produce the executable. > > .A, .O, .ppu files and

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread L505
> > SmartLinking to be active? The Docs, imply NO, that this is the default; > > your reply > above > > implies Yes. > > > > Bob Also, if your exe/elf is still not smaller after you find the .A files, try using the -Ba option which rebuilds all units, incase your old .O files are sticking like

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread L505
> > This brings up another nagging question I have had. If I set SpartLinking ON, > my > executables are no smaller! Your reply here seems to suggest, that I do not > have any of my > units compiled with SmartLinking enabled. There are no ".A" files in my source tree. > > To enable Smart Linking,

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 29 Jan 2006, at 21:00, Bob Richards wrote: And also, smartlinked units contain .A files in addition to .O and .PPU files This brings up another nagging question I have had. If I set SpartLinking ON, my executables are no smaller! Your reply here seems to suggest, that I do not have an

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Bob Richards
L505 wrote: > And also, smartlinked units contain .A files in addition to .O and .PPU files This brings up another nagging question I have had. If I set SpartLinking ON, my executables are no smaller! Your reply here seems to suggest, that I do not have any of my units compiled with SmartLinking

Re: [fpc-pascal] OOT: Pascal (especially FPC) on Linux community

2006-01-29 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
> So, if you really want to promote FPC, try teaming up > with a few good programmers and artists to write the > next cool game in FPC. I have to agree. Good games in Linux are really lacking or very hard to install / use. > * Provide a "native" FPC GUI/IO library… (see > FreeBASIC for a referenc

Re: [fpc-pascal] OOT: Pascal (especially FPC) on Linux community

2006-01-29 Thread Ron Weidner
[Quote] Typical Linux people are always talking about C/C++, Python, and Java as the chosen powerfull and unbeatable programming language for any kind of needs! No, I don't mean to start a language flame war here. But, I think we -Pascal lovers and developers- should enter Linux community and prom

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Bob Richards
Marco van de Voort wrote: > You are aware of the fact that the .o's belong to units too? > > Delphi .dcu = fpc .ppu + fpc .o ! Dumb me! Nope! And this was the problem. I just copied the new strutils.ppu file into /usr/lib/fpc/... NOT the strutils.o as well. So when the executable got "linked"

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread L505
> > First, thanks for the reply; I applied the patch, it applied without a > > problem, verified > > the new StrUtils.pp source, all OK as per the patch. Recompiled > > strutils.ppu. The function > > still returns a zero on error. > > You are aware of the fact that the .o's belong to units too? >

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > First, thanks for the reply; I applied the patch, it applied without a > problem, verified > the new StrUtils.pp source, all OK as per the patch. Recompiled strutils.ppu. > The function > still returns a zero on error. You are aware of the fact that the .o's belong to units too? Delphi .dc

Re: [fpc-pascal] A simple "exception handling" question

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: > Bob Richards wrote: > > Michalis Kamburelis wrote: > > > > > > > There's a bug in Hex2Dec implementation -- it returns 0 instead of > > > raising EConvertError. Here's a patch: > > > > > > Index: strutils.pp > > > =