FWIW FPC 2.6.0 also triggers the same error. AFAICS this problem is somewhat analogous to the limitation when declaring members in a record. Are you sure the unit in your big project is being compiled?
-Flávio On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Brunner <andrew.t.brun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, > > The problem started when I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04. > The main project that uses similar code to my attached test had FPC raise > the same error but with similar code. > Presently, a fresh build of FPC and Lazarus allows me to build my big > project however, the test project still won't build with > > Compiling ./Test.lpr > Test.lpr(65,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PCLSInfo" > Test.lpr(65,44) Error: Illegal expression > Test.lpr(66,36) Error: Incompatible types: got "Pointer" expected "PACLInfo" > Test.lpr(66,44) Error: Illegal expression > Test.lpr(73) Fatal: There were 4 errors compiling module, stopping > Fatal: Compilation aborted > > But yet my big project with very complex nested declarations compiles just > fine > <snip> > unit coAdmin; > > interface > uses hTimer,hHTTP,hHTTPd,hRSR,uRSR,Classes,uCoreObjects,uKeywords, > hSRConsts,uTimer,uStringArray,uVarString,uKPList,hDateUtils,uFileUtils, > > dbmDomains,dbmCoreObjects,dbmUserAccounts,dbmRSS,dbmCalendaring,hDatabase; > > Type > ns=class > Type > Admin=class > const > XMLInf:TXMLInfo=( > Enabled : false; > ); > ACLInf:TACLInfo=( > Name : 'Admin'; > NameSpace : '/core/admin'; > Caption : 'Administration Core Object'; > Prompt : 'User can access administration > dashboard'; > Description : 'Back-end system administration handler' > ); > CLSInf:TCLSInfo=( > Name : 'TAdminCore'; > Location : 'coAdmin.pas'; > ); > Header:TCoreObjectInfo=( > ID : 0; > ProviderID : 0; > Enabled : true; > Anonymous : false; > NotifyOnBuffersChanged : false; > Scale : 0; > CLSInfo : @CLSInf; > ACLInfo : @ACLInf; > ); > <snip of more of these types of declarations> > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> > wrote: >> >> >> On 30 Apr 2012, at 16:48, Andrew Brunner wrote: >> >> > This problem did not exist a few days ago. >> >> Can you be more precise? I just checked with trunk from before the >> jvmbackend merge (which is from Thursday), and that one also gives an error. >> >> >> Jonas_______________________________________________ >> fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org >> http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
