Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
It's really very simple. fpspreadsheet requires lazutils, which comes inside the source code from Lazarus and lazutils does not require anything out of FPC. So if you don't want to use Lazarus, which would automatically solve the problem, then just pass 2 unit search paths to FPC when compiling yo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-02 Thread John Lee
I have it and use it - but not lazarus. But using some legacy 2.2.2 libraries w/o source & want it to work there. Even with latest fpc it didn't seem very easy to get sheet data into csv, I couldn't follow the examples in fpspread..., seemed to need lots of lazarus stuff n units that I didn't under

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Why cant you download the latest FPC? -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-02 Thread John Lee
I didn't _want_ to use 3rd part products - I didn't really have any choice if I wanted to get something working in a finite time, given the 1000s of lines of code to try to hack, then test when I don't really understand them & the fact that there isn't any easy fpc solution. Thanks all for you hel

[fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-02 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 01/10/2013 21:44, John Lee wrote: > Thanks for all suggestions. IMO fpspread...pas is too complex for & I'd > need to hack thro' thousands of lines - maybe a simple program to read > xls into csv, as in b) below could be added?. > Guess one could try to use the excel.dll in te reference in fpc

[fpc-pascal] Re: read cells contents from .xls file

2013-10-01 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 01/10/2013 13:15, John Lee wrote: > Thanks - as you say (with nice irony) it isn't a simple format, and I > don't pretend to understand it, indeed it is 'doing my head in' - but > I don't want to write .xls or do charts etc, just read some cells (only > in in excel 2003, seems to be v11 accord