Re: [fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
L505 wrote: > >> MSEgui has a distinct advantage over Lazarus. It compiles under Delphi. Just >> tried it. Fiddled with one or two lines in the code, but I got the IDE to >> compile and run and then built a small hello world app that also ran. Pretty >> impressive really. > > And the exe's/elf's

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Vinzent Hoefler
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 17:24, L505 wrote: > sense to me.). Or maybe you mean a foundation, like a non-profit > organization? Obviously FPC is not out for profit, but out to help > the developer. So I can see a non-profit organization working - but > this would mean that FPC team would spend more

Re: [fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

2006-04-18 Thread L505
> MSEgui has a distinct advantage over Lazarus. It compiles under Delphi. Just > tried it. Fiddled with one or two lines in the code, but I got the IDE to > compile and run and then built a small hello world app that also ran. Pretty > impressive really. And the exe's/elf's it generates are reas

Re: [fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

2006-04-18 Thread Matt Emson
MSEgui has a distinct advantage over Lazarus. It compiles under Delphi. Just tried it. Fiddled with one or two lines in the code, but I got the IDE to compile and run and then built a small hello world app that also ran. Pretty impressive really. M > Hi, > > Movie: > = > For those who did no

Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread ϸ�� ����������� � mail.ru
PS. I hoped that this thread will die and I will not waste my time, but it is alive and I can't hold myself and do write an answer. To be on topic, I just want to share my thoughts (they do probably differ from yours), ended with not choosing Lazarus (but I trace its development a little). I am n

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread L505
> > Disadvantages of Delphi: > > 2. It's closed source, if it's buggy you're lost. > > Main problems comes from RTL and VCL, not a compiler - it is > stable, at least for D7. As D7 Pro+ comes with RTL and VCL sources, it is > easy to fix and recompile both. And there is many excelent free and > Op

[fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

2006-04-18 Thread Den Jean
Hi, Movie: = For those who did not try MSEide yet, here is a movie teaser. http://users.pandora.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/mse01.html Wiki: === http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/MSEide_&_MSEgui Can someone provide a more appropriate entry in the wiki for this page. I cannot modify al

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
> If you really want to make Free Pascal / Lazarus better you should go > with specific topics, and discuss what would be a solution to improve > each small parts where you consider Delphi to be better then Lazarus. That is exactly almost literally counted in the first message of the thread. Takin

[fpc-pascal] FPC on NetBSD (i386)

2006-04-18 Thread Adrian Maier
Hello , NetBSD is not on fpc's list of supported operating systems, although there is an older version available (1.0.10) which works fine, at least for my purposes. I've tried to compile the latest sources (svn), but : system.pp(23,6) Error: Illegal unit name: SYSTEM systemh.inc(26,4) Fatal: U

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Ring
JclLogic.pas(1130,19) Error: Asm: [bts mem32,mem32] invalid combination of opcode and operands JclLogic.pas(1193,19) Error: Asm: [bt mem32,mem32] invalid combination of opcode and operands JclLogic.pas(1295,19) Error: Asm: [btc mem32,mem32] invalid combination of opcode and operands JclLogic.pas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
> me the creeps because my last lines of assembler code were written 15 > years ago Start with adding -Sd to the compiler command line. Putting the compiler in delphi mode might help:-) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org ht

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Ring
For a quick start I did the following: for file in /data/subversion/svn/jcl/source/common/*.pas /data/subversion/svn/jcl/source/unix/*.pas ; do fpc -FE. -Fu/data/subversion/svn/jcl/source/common/ -Fi/data/subversion/svn/jcl/source/ $file 2>&1 ; done | grep -i Error | sort | uniq This trie

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Alain Michaud
Hi, I think that we all agree now and we should close that thread. Alain On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:22 +0200, Sasa Zeman wrote: > > Please do not come all the way here just to tell us that Lazarus is > > not suitable as a RAD tool. This is typical Troll behavior. > > You people are really o

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Alain Michaud
HI, I think that we all agree now and we should close this thread. Alain On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:04 +0200, Sasa Zeman wrote: > > The problem was when you kept insisting that the compiler wastes > > memory and should be optimized (with a target of 128MB physical > > Please read all carfully,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
> I am currently doing the switch from Kylix to FreePascal. > > Current versions of jcl do not compile very well with FreePascal on > Linux because defines are missing. Could you be more specific? Sometimes there is a gap in support for Kylix apps because we want to avoid too many kylixisms/linu

Re: [fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Ring wrote: > I am currently doing the switch from Kylix to FreePascal. > > Current versions of jcl do not compile very well with FreePascal on > Linux because defines are missing. > > Does somebody work on this right now? Afaik not. > > If not, I will start on it, but first I want to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/18/06, Sasa Zeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please do not come all the way here just to tell us that Lazarus is > > not suitable as a RAD tool. This is typical Troll behavior. > > You people are really odd... Please do not mis-interprete. Then, what was your objective in starting this th

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/18/06, Sasa Zeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is highly unlikely that any project will stay OpenSource and free of > charge forever. As example is popular RedHat where worked 100s, maybe 1000s > of people (volonitiers and contributers). It become commercial since v 8.0. Comercial is not c

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
> Disadvantages of Delphi: > 2. It's closed source, if it's buggy you're lost. Main problems comes from RTL and VCL, not a compiler - it is stable, at least for D7. As D7 Pro+ comes with RTL and VCL sources, it is easy to fix and recompile both. And there is many excelent free and OpenSource third

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
> Please do not come all the way here just to tell us that Lazarus is > not suitable as a RAD tool. This is typical Troll behavior. You people are really odd... Please do not mis-interprete. I spend most of my spare time and money to test FPC and Lazarus, post more than several bug reports and su

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread L505
> If FreePascal founders are registrated as a company, contract would have > legitimity in the law, otherwise will not. Incorporating into a registered company doesn't really help secure anything down - for example Borland could cut off the Delphi product at any time (or sell it) even though the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 4/18/06, Sasa Zeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on > Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing > commercial applications, you have seen real RAD tool in action: Please do not come all the way here

[fpc-pascal] Is somebody working on making jcl work again with fpc (on linux)

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Ring
I am currently doing the switch from Kylix to FreePascal. Current versions of jcl do not compile very well with FreePascal on Linux because defines are missing. Does somebody work on this right now? If not, I will start on it, but first I want to minimize the possibility of doing work that a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Sasa Zeman wrote: Unless you have no interest at all in providing commercial grade support, because it's just a hobby and you want to be free regarding how much time you spend on it, on what you spend it. Unless you calculate number od Delphi developer world wide. I doub

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Sasa Zeman: > FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on > Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing > commercial applications, you have seen real RAD tool in action: That depends on the env

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Sasa Zeman wrote: From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it. However, FPC and Lazarus currently cannot be competition to Delphi/Kylix. But the most important advantages are daily updates and upgrades and we hope

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Sasa Zeman wrote: >> The problem was when you kept insisting that the compiler wastes >> memory and should be optimized (with a target of 128MB physical > > Please read all carfully, you mis-interpreting whole thing again. > > If you want more developers in the team, simply "yes or not" is not en

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Sasa Zeman wrote: > From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it. >>> However, FPC and Lazarus currently cannot be competition >>> to Delphi/Kylix. But the most important advantages are daily >>> updates and upgrades and we hope it >>>

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
> The problem was when you kept insisting that the compiler wastes > memory and should be optimized (with a target of 128MB physical Please read all carfully, you mis-interpreting whole thing again. If you want more developers in the team, simply "yes or not" is not enough. Explain how else to kn

[fpc-pascal] FPC and Lazarus as a main RAD tool?

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
From: "Jonas Maebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Since I testing FPC and Lazarus, I'm intersting in using it. > > However, FPC and Lazarus currently cannot be competition > > to Delphi/Kylix. But the most important advantages are daily > > updates and upgrades and we hope it > > will become worthy c

[fpc-pascal] big const arrays

2006-04-18 Thread Пётр Косаревский
Is there any easy way to create big array of constants? Does it matter (with maximum optimizations switches), if my >50 Kb array is defined as constant? That is: are there benefits from defining heavily used array as const versus defining it as variable and filling data by program? (For exampl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 18 apr 2006, at 12:49, Sasa Zeman wrote: With free and opensource product you made a trade with voluniers and users to make a reliable and popular product, based on your own (i.e, FPC team) vision and user's requests. I can suggest features which suits to my own needs (declared as a p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Sasa Zeman
> In that case, you cannot make any sort of demands or set our > priorities. You can voice your opinion of course (which you did), but Please do not mis-interprete. I'm aware that any meber of FPC can be a bit more sensitive, but that is not a reson for inpropriate behavior instead of cultural arg

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort wrote: >> Marco van de Voort wrote: > EDO is more museum exponat and price is 10 times larger than the same > memory > size SD-RAM. The used memory is one module 128MB SD-RAM (PC100). I've > manage > to found only one 256MB module available on market with pr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Marco van de Voort wrote: > >>> EDO is more museum exponat and price is 10 times larger than the same > >>> memory > >>> size SD-RAM. The used memory is one module 128MB SD-RAM (PC100). I've > >>> manage > >>> to found only one 256MB module available on market with price of 50Euro, > >>> but >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 18 apr 2006, at 03:38, Sasa Zeman wrote: It seem that you missunderstood. As a developer, I'm not interested in looking FPC code nor tracking future plans (details are alse never published, only future plans), but using it to create working applications. In that case, you cannot make any

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Marco van de Voort wrote: >>> EDO is more museum exponat and price is 10 times larger than the same memory >>> size SD-RAM. The used memory is one module 128MB SD-RAM (PC100). I've manage >>> to found only one 256MB module available on market with price of 50Euro, but >>> only incompatible PC133. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > EDO is more museum exponat and price is 10 times larger than the same memory > > size SD-RAM. The used memory is one module 128MB SD-RAM (PC100). I've manage > > to found only one 256MB module available on market with price of 50Euro, but > > only incompatible PC133. > > No, PC133 is backwards

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Ageware: Gameos

2006-04-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 17 apr 2006, at 23:37, Tomas Hajny wrote: You can still sell CDs with the compiled version (and offer paid support, etc.), but at the same time, you must make the sources freely available to anybody. Actually, even then you would only have to make the source available to the people that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Division by Zero - not raised exception

2006-04-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Sasa Zeman wrote: >>> FPC can be comparable with command line compiler of Delphi 7. >> Yes? So Delphi has multi platform support and has maintainable compiler >> sources? > > Multi platform support was not an issue here. No? Most of fpc's complexity is caused by this. Just compare the speed and m