This is a terrible idea. The business advantage of Object Pascal
has always been the component market, as it reduces development
Component vendors simply aren't interested in FPC, and those that are,
are bought about by EMBT and made Delphi only.
Component vendors are interested in selling com
I still believe FPC should leave the "delphi compatible" idea, or
clearly state that it means "compatible with Delphi 7 for legacy
purposes" and nothing newer. Then innovate the rest of the language on
its own in a Pascal-like manner.
This is a terrible idea. The business advantage of Object Pas
Hi Michael,
> What puzzles me is: why still do this ?
Depends.
From my own/commercial perspective:
I still love the Delphi 7 IDE, and my co-workers also are Delphi users
and have not switched to Lazarus. We also use a hell lot of commercial
Delphi components.
Our work-flow for our embedded
[Excuse the broken thread reference, I just subscribed to this list]
We've just released the first public version at www.crossfpc.com. Go
check it out. So yes, we kept the "late 2012" release date ;)
Bero indeed is the co-author of this project and he's a brilliant mind.
Sadly his code typically
Hello Den,
DJ> The FPC Wiki shows someone else is busy at it too,
DJ> any cooperation would be great.
Replied to off-list.
Simon
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Skybuck,
thanks for the detailed guide. However, it was simpler than that...
with the help from the guys at #fpc, I got
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/cross/mingw/mingwcross.zip
Unzipped that to \cross, then got mys
Hi,
after quite some time I thought to give FPC another try to see if it's
a suitable replacement for Kylix.
My goal is to be able to cross-compile Linux elf targets from win32.
So I downloaded and installed 1.9.6, and after that added the units
packages for Linux.
Run up FP, compiled hello wor
