Marco van de Voort wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 07:07:46AM +0100, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: >> >> As part of PasDoc project we have developed simple file_to_pascal_string >> utility for this purpose. Just get >> http://svn.code.sf.net/p/pasdoc/code/trunk/source/tools/file_to_pascal_string.dpr >> and compile it. > > Kind of redundant if two such tools come with FPC (data2inc and bin2obj) >
Hm, I admit I simply didn't know about them long time ago, when creating file_to_pascal_xxx utilities in PasDoc:) Looking at them now: 1. They both have quite longer code than our simple file_to_pascal_string.dpr / file_to_pascal_data.dpr... In particular data2inc wants to do much more (being able to process a special file format like data2inc.exm). Although it can do the simple thing when invoked with -b option. But bin2obj is cool, almost exactly what we need, and could replace file_to_pascal_string and file_to_pascal_data indeed. 2. However, neither of them produces a string with line endings expressed as LineEnding constant (so it's OS-specific when output). And we actually like that:) Both bin2obj and data2inc encode the text to a series of characters, and newlines are expressed by explicit chars (like #10 when input has Unix line endings). But that's a minor thing indeed. If we would know about bin2obj back then, we would probably use it:) Thanks! Michalis -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
