Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 14:03 schrieb Andreas Berger: > My problem is that there are cheap motherboards appearing > that no longer have serial ports. I'm afraid that soon none will. > Therefore I am looking for alternatives. I'm running also a DOS Program and now it is ported to Linux.

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Andreas Berger wrote: > > My own feeling if you /have/ to have a DOS environment and don't mean > > something like the '98 DOS box would be to see if you could run the code > > under either DosEmu or Qemu, both of which allow guest session ports to > > be mapped to whatever hardware is supported b

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > EPROM blaster, but obviously that sort of thing wouldn't work where the > > physical > > device types differed. > > > Actually, I use DOS directly. I use cheap off-the-shelf motherboard for > an embedded system that our company uses. The motherboard talks the the

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Andreas Berger
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've come across a website discussing connection of a USB CD-ROM drive to a DOS system for booting purposes but I've not seen reference to serial devices. I think the people to ask about this might be Parallax since they use USB-connected serial ports for device programmi

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Andreas Berger wrote: > > I have two Prolific 2303 serial converters without problems. There is > > native USB support in the kernel (2.6.17). I have run them at 38400. I am > > interested in your problems - maybe I can prevent some future problem. > > > > > Does anyone know about USB-to-Serial fo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Include files

2006-12-28 Thread Daniƫl Mantione
Op Thu, 28 Dec 2006, schreef Mark Morgan Lloyd: > Does FPC have any restriction on where in a unit an include file may be > inserted? > > I was looking at a program last night that's currently compiled by TP and > Delphi > which eventually I'd like to be compatible with FPC/Lazarus. Customisat

[fpc-pascal] Include files

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Does FPC have any restriction on where in a unit an include file may be inserted? I was looking at a program last night that's currently compiled by TP and Delphi which eventually I'd like to be compatible with FPC/Lazarus. Customisation is simplified if fragments can be moved into an include file

Re: [fpc-pascal] Internal error 200602261 when compiling a library

2006-12-28 Thread Stefan van den Berg
Stefan van den Berg wrote: I'm now trying to rebuild the whole toolchain (FPC, LCL, our own shared packages) and our libraries with -Aas and will see if that solves anything. Rebuilding the toolchain doesn't seem to be solving my problems. It seems, for now, I'll have to go back to revision 50

Re: [fpc-pascal] Internal error 200602261 when compiling a library

2006-12-28 Thread Stefan v. d. Berg
Jonas Maebe wrote: As a workaround, try compiling with -Aas. That seems to work when compiling a really, really small sample. I'll have to try this on the actual libraries, when I'm at my desk at work. Thanks for the quick fix. Stefan ___ fpc-pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Internal error 200602261 when compiling a library

2006-12-28 Thread Stefan van den Berg
Jonas Maebe wrote: > As a workaround, try compiling with -Aas. That seems to work when compiling a really, really small sample. But now compiling and linking the actual libraries against shared packages seems to fail with the following error: /usr/bin/ld: units/i386-linux/authorisationevent