On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, John Lee said:
This sounds like the best plan if one has several .ppus - as some ppl seem
to have & no source code, that should - but not sure what's involved with
writing the wrapper. Could the whole thing be written in fpc pascal?
Would it be easy to reuse the wrapper for different .ppus? If so this'd be
useful fpc tool.
What do others with this problem think?
I would not bother recovering the ppu's.
Since RTL and codegeration changes might cause other trouble for non trivial
cases (specially between major versions), I would say it is not very
practical.
IOW the possibilities are mostly theoretical, and if you are really in a
hurry, stop wasting time recovering and start rewriting the missing source.
... and make sure you back up source next time.
+1
There are so many 'if's and "maybe"s that the end result is highly unlikely
to produce a working binary. Even if you manage to get it working, there is
no guarantee that the next FPC version will work.
The cartoon on http://developdaly.com/general/how-i-backup-everything/ says it
all.
Michael.
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