Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-24 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 24 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > today (quite late) i've got myself some improvements...so far i was > unable to even compile some parts od fpc within freedos (inside > virtual pc)...the IDE that comes with fpc2.0.5 does not even start at > all...now i can compile correctly all th

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Franzini
today (quite late) i've got myself some improvements...so far i was unable to even compile some parts od fpc within freedos (inside virtual pc)...the IDE that comes with fpc2.0.5 does not even start at all...now i can compile correctly all the packages needed to build the ide (as Pierre pointed)..

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Franzini
for now, on MS Virtual PC with fpc2.0.5 stable for go32v2, the IDE does not even get loaded correctly...it displays some info on compiler and ide version, shows the nice FP screen and then exits quickly...i will try to recompile from the sources with debug info to see exactly where it stops (altou

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-16 Thread Pierre Muller
> i use DOS regularly (right this moment, my 'lab' got messed up by a > foreign > handand i lost a AT power supply so no old PC running; this will get fixed > today) > > i will do my best to make it up to date and to help Pierre The current 2.0 fixes branch should be more stable. Could you p

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 1/12/07, Tomas Hajny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In general case when using plain DOS (when using virtual DOS machines provided by some other platforms like WinXX or OS/2, DPMI is provided directly by the platform and interface to it is part of the VDM kernel). The only "magic" is detection of

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Franzini
thanks for the help On 1/11/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, help is certainly very welcome, but note that more is needed than one or two bug fixes. To make it a first platform again someone is needed who really uses Dos, so he quickly notes when something is wrong and ca

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-12 Thread Tomas Hajny
Daniel Franzini wrote: > On 1/11/07, Tomas Hajny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . >> GO32v2 is a protected mode application, indeed - specifically, it's >> using >> DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface). No special extender is needed if >> you >> already have DPMI host available (up and running). Som

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Thu, 11 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > On 1/11/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This the situation: > > * The Dos port is without a maintainer. > > * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos > > version > > * Bugs in the Dos port are not being

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 1/11/07, Tomas Hajny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Franzini wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi I've had difficulties running FPC apps (probably including the compiler itself) under FreeDOS in the past (whereas it works properly with other DOS implementations like MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS and DR-DOS/N

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
welllike i said before, i'm a volunteer to mantain the port...if Pierre does need some sort of help he can call me On 1/11/07, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11 jan 2007, at 10:14, Daniël Mantione wrote: > This the situation: > * The Dos port is without a maintainer. > * We are

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 1/11/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This the situation: * The Dos port is without a maintainer. * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos version * Bugs in the Dos port are not being fixed so it is of poor quality. well, if so i'm a volunteer to m

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
Daniel Franzini wrote: Hi Daniel, > i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside > Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) I've had difficulties running FPC apps (probably including the compiler itself) under FreeDOS in the past (whereas it works properly with othe

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 jan 2007, at 10:14, Daniël Mantione wrote: This the situation: * The Dos port is without a maintainer. * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos version * Bugs in the Dos port are not being fixed so it is of poor quality. That's not true anymore since Pierre

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 10 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > Hi all > > i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside > Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) > > the problem is that i have some low-level code which i would like to port to > fpc. FreeDOS came with fpc 2.0.2 wh

[fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
Hi all i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) the problem is that i have some low-level code which i would like to port to fpc. FreeDOS came with fpc 2.0.2 which i think is suitable for my needs. 1.) i can't even compil