Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-04 Thread J.L. Blom
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 18:35 -0300, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > There is a post here about fpc with athlon 64: > > http://community.freepascal.org:1/bboards/message?message_id=155270&forum_id=24083#231973 > > It could be of use. > Felipe thanks, but that is not much relevant as it ha

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
There is a post here about fpc with athlon 64: http://community.freepascal.org:1/bboards/message?message_id=155270&forum_id=24083#231973 It could be of use. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 3 jul 2006, at 17:51, J.L. Blom wrote: YEs, Michael, but my 64-bit FC5 can't run a 32-bit firefox, so I must use the 64-bit version. That's probably because you don't have 32 bit versions installed of all the libraries it requires. Jonas ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread J.L. Blom
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 15:55 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > Linux distributions support running 32-bit apps on an AMD64. This has > little to do with the AMD64 processor itself. > > I can perfectly run the 32-bit ppc386 on a 64-bit S

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread J.L. Blom
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:45 -0300, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 7/3/06, J.L. Blom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Filipe, I will try to compile a source but I assume I have to change the > > makefile rather heavily to account for the different environment and the > > different fpc version

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/3/06, J.L. Blom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: course you can write programs using some editor but from the earliest (Borland) pascal on, the IDE was an invaluable tool. Isn´t is possible to run 32-bit software on your machine? I heard

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 7/3/06, J.L. Blom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: course you can write programs using some editor but from the earliest (Borland) pascal on, the IDE was an invaluable tool. Isn´t is possible to run 32-bit software on your machine? I heard that some amd 64-bits machines can acctually run 32-bit so

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 7/3/06, J.L. Blom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Filipe, I will try to compile a source but I assume I have to change the makefile rather heavily to account for the different environment and the different fpc version. No, you won´t. If you look into the Makefile you will notice it is already pre

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread J.L. Blom
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:39 +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: > J.L. Blom schreef: > There are no 64 bits rpms for lazarus, except for snapshots. > > So either use the snapshot rpms (http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/), > release > source rpms > (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?gr

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
J.L. Blom schreef: On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 07:11 +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/2/06, Alain Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question - 2 : Is there a special Lazarus version for AMD64 ? Does it work on AMD64 ? Please test! =) There is no pre-compile

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-03 Thread J.L. Blom
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 07:11 +0200, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > On 7/2/06, Alain Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Question - 2 : > >> > >> Is there a special Lazarus version for AMD64 ? Does it work on AMD64 ? > > > > > > Please test! =) There is no

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 7/2/06, Alain Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question - 2 : Is there a special Lazarus version for AMD64 ? Does it work on AMD64 ? Please test! =) There is no pre-compiled binary for download, that´s for sure, but this may be because there is no mai

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-02 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 7/2/06, Alain Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question - 1: Once I have installed the module: fpc-2.0.2.x86_64-linux.tar then does that means that I use the "regular" source code: fpc-2.0.2.source.tar.gz in order to recompile FPC or to compile lazarus? I think that you need to install fp

Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-02 Thread Alain Michaud
Hi, I wanted to install fpc/laz on a friend's AMD64 myself a fey days ago in order to show the "power of FPC" but I realized quickly that AMD64 is a different "animal". I can not answer any of your questions as I am not a developer. However I can say that there are as many platform to suppor

[fpc-pascal] fpc & Lazarus with 64-bit

2006-07-02 Thread J.L. Blom
Hi, I recently retrieved fpc-pascal 2.0.2a from the Lazarus download site together with Lazarus 0.9.16. System: AMD64 1 Gb mem. sufficient disk space, Linux 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5. My problems: 1. Starting "fp" freezes the terminal window. When I do "fp &", the window is accessible but the first keystro