[fpc-pascal] fpc svn development version fails to build from source

2015-08-07 Thread Roderick Johnstone
Hi I'm trying to build the fpc svn development version on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7. I already have the fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64, fpc-src-2.6.4-140420.x86_64 and lazarus-1.4.2-0.x86_64 rpms installed. The build is failing like this: # make clean all install INSTALL_DIR=/var/tmp/testfpc . . [ 5

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-07 Thread Ralf Quint
On 8/6/2015 8:25 PM, Xiangrong Fang wrote: It seems that $packrecord does not work at all. I always explicitly use PACKED Record as in /T//ypeifmap = PACKED Record/ / mem_start: dword;/ / mem_end: dword;/ ///b//ase_addr: word;/ /

[fpc-pascal] FPC's documentation license?

2015-08-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Just curious, what is FPC's documentation license? At moment it seems like it doesn't specify any all - which might not be a good idea. I looked in the fpcdocs repository and in all the generated PDF's. Normally open source projects specify a GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 or something l

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Sven Barth
Am 07.08.2015 14:45 schrieb "Gour" : > > Graeme Geldenhuys > writes: > > > I'm pretty confident that much of the language content will be > > applicable even when using FPC. > > Good. > > Is it reasonable to assume that if there are some current ’Delphi-only’ > features described in the book they

[fpc-pascal] A5 size ref.pdf document

2015-08-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-07 13:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:> > That's it. I just tried, works fine. > You may need to edit the margins to use more of the page, as the > margins are fo A4 paper. Thanks Michael. I tried and it did seem to work. Viewing it on my Kindle, it needed a bit more work. - As you sa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
Gabor Boros writes: > The official documentation is not a good start point? Well, it’s pretty comperhensive, but “Reference Guide” is reference, while, atm, I’m looking for something like manual/tutorial. Of course, I’m sure that official docs will be indispensable later. ;) Sincerely, Gour

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read JSON from file

2015-08-07 Thread leledumbo
> J:=GetJSON(json);// Error is here. quick fix: J:=GetJSON(json.text); -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/Read-JSON-from-file-tp5722198p574.html Sent from the Free Pascal - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
Graeme Geldenhuys writes: > I'm pretty confident that much of the language content will be > applicable even when using FPC. Good. Is it reasonable to assume that if there are some current ’Delphi-only’ features described in the book they are going to arrive in FPS sooner or later? > The best

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2015-08-07 13:07, Gabor Boros wrote: The official documentation is not a good start point? Indeed, Michael's work is of very high quality, and the PDF documents look fantastic (thank you LaTeX). @Michael van Canneyt: Any chance of generating

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-07 13:07, Gabor Boros wrote: > The official documentation is not a good start point? Indeed, Michael's work is of very high quality, and the PDF documents look fantastic (thank you LaTeX). @Michael van Canneyt: Any chance of generating a A5 version of the Language Guide or would that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Germano Rossi
2015-08-07 14:05 GMT+02:00 Graeme Geldenhuys : > Incidently, I came across a "Start programming using Object Pascal" book > on my hard drive last night. It uses Free Pascal specifically. It was > also at https://archive.org/details/StartProgrammingUsingObjectPascal -- == Germa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gabor Boros
2015.08.07. 13:13 keltezéssel, Gour írta: I wonder, being FPC noob, how suitable it can be for learning FPC? Hi, The official documentation is not a good start point? http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_documentation Gabor __

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-07 Thread Peter
On 07/08/15 12:58, Peter wrote: > However, I can't get it to pass Should have been "get it to parse" of course. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2015-08-07 12:13, Gour wrote: > > I’ve just noticed that Object Pascal Handbook > (http://www.marcocantu.com/objectpascalhandbook/) is released Thanks for mentioning that. I'm pretty confident that much of the language content will be applicable even when using FPC. The best solution would pro

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-07 Thread Peter
On 07/08/15 07:32, Jonas Maebe wrote: > ... > Then it seems that h2pas is pretty broken. > ... FWIW, I had better results in the past using a tool called ToPas http://sourceforge.net/projects/topas/ It will run under wine in linux. However, I can't get it to pass standard #include style directiv

Re: [fpc-pascal] alignment of records

2015-08-07 Thread Sven Barth
Am 07.08.2015 08:07 schrieb "Xiangrong Fang" : >> >> By using the correct types for the fields: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/ctypes/index-3.html >> >> E.g., "unsigned long" is not (always) the same as "dword". >> ​ >> > ​OK, as a matter of fact, the stuff was copied from output of h2pas

[fpc-pascal] Object Pascal Handbook

2015-08-07 Thread Gour
Hello, I’ve just noticed that Object Pascal Handbook (http://www.marcocantu.com/objectpascalhandbook/) is released (avaialable @Amazon) and considering that on the back cover it says: “The Object Pascal Handbook is the complete guide to the programming language of Delphi and AppMethod, by Embarcad

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read JSON from file

2015-08-07 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > As it happens, I have yesterday committed an extension which allows you to > specify that the JSON supports comments. > Both // and /* */ are detected and discarded. Great! =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read JSON from file

2015-08-07 Thread Chris Moody
On 08/07/2015 12:46 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Chris Moody wrote: On 08/06/2015 07:01 PM, leledumbo wrote: I download a file from a server that contains JSON code. I'm not sure how to read it into something that GetJSON is able to handle. Can't you figure out from

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read JSON from file

2015-08-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Chris Moody wrote: On 08/06/2015 07:01 PM, leledumbo wrote: I download a file from a server that contains JSON code. I'm not sure how to read it into something that GetJSON is able to handle. Can't you figure out from the function interface: http://www.freepascal.org/doc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Read JSON from file

2015-08-07 Thread Chris Moody
On 08/06/2015 07:01 PM, leledumbo wrote: I download a file from a server that contains JSON code. I'm not sure how to read it into something that GetJSON is able to handle. Can't you figure out from the function interface: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/fpjson/getjson.html Dentist.pa