[fpc-pascal]Re: 1. Mandrake & 2. FPC with WINE and crosscompiling

2003-01-28 Thread Arne Hanssen
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:20:45 +0100 (MET), Holger Peterrs wrote: > Hi, > > 1. At home I'm working with FreePascal for Windows. But in extra curricular > lessons, I work with Linux (Mandrake). I tried to install FreePascal for > Linux on this comuter, but it didn't work. For example there is no

[fpc-pascal]Graphics woes

2003-01-28 Thread Carl Eric Codere
>> I can't test GGI. Maybe we should then remove all the GGI graph as it >> doesn't work 100% correct? Then it'll never get debugged and fixed! > >I can't remember exactly who added the GGI version to CVS, but IIRC I >just posted a first version back then and clearly noted that ggigraph is >not fi

Re: [fpc-pascal]Graphics woes

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Carl Eric Codere wrote: > >> I can't test GGI. Maybe we should then remove all the GGI graph as it > >> doesn't work 100% correct? Then it'll never get debugged and fixed! > > > >I can't remember exactly who added the GGI version to CVS, but IIRC I > >just posted a first ve

Re: [fpc-pascal]Graphics woes

2003-01-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On dinsdag, jan 28, 2003, at 11:08 Europe/Brussels, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Personally i would remove ggigraph support from the CVS tree and replace with a unified (except for DOS) graph unit based on SDL... I think this is the way to go.. The only problem is of course implementi

[fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:42:37PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Will there also be sopport for conformant Arrays as they are defined > > in standard Pascal (ISO-7185)? > > Not that I'm aware of (unless you plan to implement it ? ). No, I can't do it. The point is just, that I'm still d

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread James Mills
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:05:28PM +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:42:37PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > Will there also be sopport for conformant Arrays as they are defined > > > in standard Pascal (ISO-7185)? > > > > Not that I'm aware of (unless you p

[fpc-pascal]Re: CGI (Andreas K. Foerster)

2003-01-28 Thread Luis Del Aguila
Message: 10 From: "Andreas K. Foerster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:13:45 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]CGI Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:36:00AM -0500, Luis Del Aguila wrote: > ¿ How to make a CGI program in pascal, that read and

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Anton Tichawa
Hello, List! On Tuesday 28 January 2003 14:06, James Mills wrote: > > What on earth would we want a more typed language ? Pascal is stongly > typed enough as it is, and is quite comfortable to use. People like > myself that have been using pascal for many many years will not be happy > to find tha

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:42:37PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > Will there also be sopport for conformant Arrays as they are defined > > > in standard Pascal (ISO-7185)? > > > > Not that I'm aware of (unless you plan to implement it ? ). > > No, I can't do it. > > The point is just,

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andreas K. Foerster wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:42:37PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > > Will there also be sopport for conformant Arrays as they are defined > > > in standard Pascal (ISO-7185)? > > > > Not that I'm aware of (unless you plan to implement it ?

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Andreas K. Foerster escribió: GNU Pascal is the better Pascal, when you look at the source code of your programming, but FreePascal is the better compiler, when you look at the binary that comes out... I suppose you have to pay that FPC is a Pascal->BIN compiler, whereas GPC is a Pascal->C co

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:12:11PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > True. There is pretty much no point in that, since the Pascal standards are > effectively dead. (Borland 99.9% marketshare) Well, well... and who needs HTML standards when anybody uses Microsoft products anyway... I hate that

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:06:53PM +1000, James Mills wrote: > it's quite compatible with standard pascal Oh, there is still a lot missing, even from the unextended standard. For example conformant arrays, internal files, filebuffer variables, global GOTO's(?) Procedure variables are implemented

Re: [fpc-pascal]Graphics woes

2003-01-28 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:02:43 +0100 Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given the large amount of question about "can't find -lvga when > compiling graph programs under linux" I would say the same about > lib(s)vga. I also think SDL would be a better choice (though someone > needs to do

Re: [fpc-pascal]Graphics woes

2003-01-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On dinsdag, jan 28, 2003, at 17:01 Europe/Brussels, John Coppens wrote: I was gathering courage to take on debugging the actual ggiGraph unit and try to get it running again. Somehow I believe this makes sense as so much work is already done. I'm no expert. Is SDL so much better? It's at lea

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:12:11PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > True. There is pretty much no point in that, since the Pascal standards are > > effectively dead. (Borland 99.9% marketshare) > > Well, well... and who needs HTML standards when anybody uses Microsoft > products anyway...

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
> I suppose you have to pay that FPC is a Pascal->BIN compiler, whereas GPC > is a Pascal->C compiler... > (also explaining why FPC supports less platforms, because the GCC guys are > doing the job ;-)) I'm quite sure that GPC is *not* a Pascal->C compiler, however it does use the GCC-backend to

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > I suppose you have to pay that FPC is a Pascal->BIN compiler, whereas GPC > > is a Pascal->C compiler... > > (also explaining why FPC supports less platforms, because the GCC guys are > > doing the job ;-)) > > I'm quite sure that GPC is *not

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Andreas K. Foerster wrote: GPC hardly knows any Delphi dialect features, and those are the strong point of FPC (most of the development in language after 1997 deals with Delphi extensions). Well, I never worked with Delphi. So maybe GPC is really better for me. BTW. the name FreeDelphi would f

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC (was:FPC 1.0.6 and open arrays)

2003-01-28 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
> Can FPC and GCC object files be linked together? It seems so... :-) Best regards Preben -- Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Andreas K. Foerster
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:41:57PM +0100, Preben Mikael Bohn wrote: > > I suppose you have to pay that FPC is a Pascal->BIN compiler, whereas GPC > > is a Pascal->C compiler... > > (also explaining why FPC supports less platforms, because the GCC guys are > > doing the job ;-)) > > I'm quite su

[fpc-pascal]Destroy Instance

2003-01-28 Thread Luis Del Aguila
I don't Understand, I compile this code with FPC 1.06 for Windows and the directive compiler -S2 -Rintel. is it a bug?. Thanks Type TClase1 = Class campo1:string; End; TClase2 = Class (TClase1) campo2:string; End; Var b:Tclase2; Begin b:=TClase2.create; b.campo1:='hola'; b

Re: [fpc-pascal]Run Time Error codes

2003-01-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On zaterdag, jan 25, 2003, at 02:34 Europe/Brussels, Eduardo Morras wrote: Does anyone knows what means the next error codes: 998, 313. And where find information about the applications exit code? Such strange error codes are error codes that come straight from the operating system an

RE: [fpc-pascal]Execution speed

2003-01-28 Thread Lee, John
So now you've had Marco's ideas + my 0.1 euro's worth (there are some differences in our approaches + some common ideas) re what the problem is & how you should test what's happening, please let us know what the results of your experiments are...J --- Now that the list seems to be working

Re: [fpc-pascal]Destroy Instance

2003-01-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
Luis Del Aguila schrieb: b.destroy; //if destroy the instance . Writeln(b.campo2); // Why the instance exist? You have to call b.Free instead of b.Destroy to properly destruct the instance. And don't forget that the destruction will free the memory, but not override it wi

Re: [fpc-pascal]FPC vs. GPC

2003-01-28 Thread Preben Mikael Bohn
>> I'm quite sure that GPC is *not* a Pascal->C compiler, however it does use >> the GCC-backend to some extend, > That is true. I thought so. :-) > If you search a Pascal to C converter, have a look at p2c. I must admit that I prefer ptoc instead, don't remember the URL, though... Best regards

Re: [fpc-pascal]Destroy Instance

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew J.Swan [home]
* Luis Del Aguila [LDA] [Tuesday, January 28, 2003] wrote: * subject: [fpc-pascal]Destroy Instance * msgid:00af01c2c6fb$8a85a320$491e30c8@mesajil LDA> Type LDA> TClase1 = Class LDA> campo1:string; LDA> End; LDA> TClase2 = Class (TClase1) LDA> campo2:string; LDA> End; LDA> Var b:Tc