Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Coyo wrote:
I have read on the wiki and documentation that FreePascal does not
have any native support for socket handling, and that you need an
external third party library to have any support for it.
This is not correct. Of course Free Pascal has native support for socket
handling ?
Knowing the URL of that wiki page would be useful, so that we can fix it
if it really is broken. What version of FPC is the documentation for?
I want to write an IRC bot in FreePascal, but I need the ability to
both make outgoing connections to IRC servers or other bots of the
same kind, as well as accept incoming connections from other bots.
I'd prefer as straightforward TCP sockets support as I can get. Any
advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your
time and patience.
Just use the sockets or ssockets units. The first is plain pascal and a
straightforward interface as you encounter it in any C implementation,
the second is using classes.
Seconded, it's something I do on a regular basis when I have to do
something with a non-standard protocol. However I think there's a couple
of points worth considering.
The first is that the Pascal /language/ doesn't have implicit support
for sockets, you need to import an appropriate unit/library. That's
going to be the case for almost all general-purpose languages, with the
exception of things like Perl and Python which try to build in
everything a programmer might need including the kitchen sink.
The second is that for standard protocols like FTP and HTTP it might be
better to use a third-party library to avoid reinventing the wheel when
it comes to security etc., some of these- for example Synapse- are
routinely used by almost everybody but aren't packaged with FPC because
their developers prefer to stay independent.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
_______________________________________________
fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
