[fpc-devel] FPC 64bit performance

2009-08-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I switched to a full 64bit system last Friday. Over the weekend I read the following in the MSEideMSEgui newsgroup. Is this true or still the case wit FPC 64bit support? If so, does this apply to all 64bit supported platforms? Original Message Working with 64 bit is

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 64bit performance

2009-08-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Aug 2009, at 08:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I switched to a full 64bit system last Friday. Over the weekend I read the following in the MSEideMSEgui newsgroup. Is this true or still the case wit FPC 64bit support? FPC does use all available registers on all platforms. If so,

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 64bit performance

2009-08-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Jonas Maebe wrote: FPC does use all available registers on all platforms. Thanks for clearing that up. I passed on the information. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 64bit performance

2009-08-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
Jonas Maebe schreef: On 24 Aug 2009, at 08:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I switched to a full 64bit system last Friday. Over the weekend I read the following in the MSEideMSEgui newsgroup. Is this true or still the case wit FPC 64bit support? FPC does use all available registers on all

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 64bit performance

2009-08-24 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 24 Aug 2009, at 10:09, Vincent Snijders wrote: Maybe what was hinted at is: earlier fpc version did not use regvars correctly and using regvars was disabled by default. Ah yes, that's true. I forgot about that. Jonas ___ fpc-devel maillist

[fpc-devel] Firebird shared library name change

2009-08-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I noticed that on newer Ubuntu Linux systems that the name of the Firebird shared library has changed for v2.x versions of Firebird Database Server. -- $ ls -l /usr/lib/libfbcl* 2009-08-24 12:06 /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2 - libfbclient.so.2.1.1 2008-11-19 20:09

Re: [fpc-devel] Firebird shared library name change

2009-08-24 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 24-08-2009 om 13:02 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Graeme Geldenhuys: Hi, I noticed that on newer Ubuntu Linux systems that the name of the Firebird shared library has changed for v2.x versions of Firebird Database Server. -- $ ls -l

Re: [fpc-devel] Firebird shared library name change

2009-08-24 Thread Desmond Coertzen
Hi Graeme It seems the SqlDB + Firebird code only looks for 'libgds.so' and 'libfbclient.so' giving the following error at runtime... With my last production experience with Firebird, libgds.so was the stubs to the old Interbase lib where Firebird derived from. libfbclient.so.x is backwards

Re: [fpc-devel] Firebird shared library name change

2009-08-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/8/24 Desmond Coertzen patrolliekapt...@gmail.com: With my last production experience with Firebird, libgds.so was the stubs to the old Interbase lib where Firebird derived from. libfbclient.so.x is The problem is easy to fix from my side, by simply manually creating a libfbclient.so

Re: [fpc-devel] Firebird shared library name change

2009-08-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: Doing a search on http://packages.ubuntu.com, it seems that only the 'firebird2.0-dev' and 'firebird2.1-dev' packages include the symlink libfbclient.so. The standard firebird client and server packages only install libfbclient.so.2 This is standard