Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-31 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/31 Mattias Gaertner > On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:43:01 -0500 > Andrew Brunner wrote: > > > After installing Lazarus 1.0.2 binaries I try to compile my project and > get > > > > Fatal: Can't find unit pqconnection used by uDatabase > > > > If I click on the pqconnection unit CodeTools brings

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-30 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:43:01 -0500 Andrew Brunner wrote: > After installing Lazarus 1.0.2 binaries I try to compile my project and get > > Fatal: Can't find unit pqconnection used by uDatabase > > If I click on the pqconnection unit CodeTools brings me right to the > proper file. > > What can

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
José Mejuto schrieb: In the past other development environments (or even commercial apps. like some POS) create a "subst'ed" drive to run the software, so in the "start" it subst to a new drive letter, and move execution to that drive. With XP and upper a hardlink to "X:\Lazarus" from "Progra

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread José Mejuto
El 29/10/2012 16:59, Andrew Brunner escribió: Ok. There are issues. There has to be progress and resolution to move forward. It is better. Just go give you perspective here. The enemy is NEVER better. And this particular one is as bad as it gets. Hello, In the past other development en

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-10-2012 17:06, Andrew Brunner wrote: > On 10/29/2012 09:55 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> Ranting even more won't get anything done. Test and create patches, stop >> complaining. > > I'm not complaining, just alerting first and trying to see how to get > resolution via the proper channels.

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 09:55 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: Ranting even more won't get anything done. Test and create patches, stop complaining. I'm not complaining, just alerting first and trying to see how to get resolution via the proper channels. If you don't want to do that, choose a different

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 09:47 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: Why? If it was not fixable at that time? We don't create the linker, nor the debugger. I have no idea about linker and debugger idiosyncrasies. I don't know myself. I am merely pointing out facts. It is a known issue for me. There even is a bug

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Martin
On 29/10/2012 14:47, Vincent Snijders wrote: 2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner : On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program Files. (A highly irregular install is

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 29-10-2012 15:05, Andrew Brunner wrote: > On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: > The space path issues is a show stopper. Each day Lazarus is downloaded > as no space paths allowed translates into a stunted growth rate. This > is simply forcing some developers to abort the install a

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner : > On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: > >> In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with >> space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program >> Files. (A highly irregular install is preferable over an install, that >>

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
After installing Lazarus 1.0.2 binaries I try to compile my project and get Fatal: Can't find unit pqconnection used by uDatabase If I click on the pqconnection unit CodeTools brings me right to the proper file. What can't fpc find the unit? What entry is missing from the fpc.cfg file? --

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
On 10/29/2012 08:31 AM, Vincent Snijders wrote: In the past some third part tools didn't work corectly with paths with space. To prevent trouble, Lazarus refuses to install in Program Files. (A highly irregular install is preferable over an install, that results in a Lazarus that doesn't work)

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/29 Andrew Brunner : > Another problem is that when I go to install Lazarus in my Program Files > Folder I get > "Selected folder contains spaces, please select a folder without spaces in > it." > > This IMO is totally unacceptable. Some people aren't going appreciate that. > But having A L

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
Another problem is that when I go to install Lazarus in my Program Files Folder I get "Selected folder contains spaces, please select a folder without spaces in it." This IMO is totally unacceptable. Some people aren't going appreciate that. But having A Lazarus install outside Program Files

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Brunner
I'm exporting now ... Lazarus revision 39186 FPC revision 22875 But this was from yesterday so it would be "-" at least on revision. Downloaded lazarus install for Windows 64 from lazarus.freepascal.org website It came with FPC 2.6.0 and placed in ./lazarus/fpc I opened my project but could not

Re: [Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
2012/10/28 Andrew Brunner : > Using fpc/trunk > I cannot compile lazarus/trunk on windows 8 64bit > > win32object.inc(565,78) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 4: Got > "", > expected " procedure(QWord;LongWord;QWord;LongWord);StdCall>" > > Needing to build for Win8x64. What is on that line? Wh

[Lazarus] Problems with Win8 x64

2012-10-28 Thread Andrew Brunner
Using fpc/trunk I cannot compile lazarus/trunk on windows 8 64bit win32object.inc(565,78) Error: Incompatible type for arg no. 4: Got "", expected "procedure(QWord;LongWord;QWord;LongWord);StdCall>" Needing to build for Win8x64. -- Andrew Brunner Aurawin LLC 512.574.6298 http://aurawin.com/