Hi A.J., I tried compiling the OutKafe win32 client:
Import library not found for pq
Import library not found for c
Same with trying to install outkafelibs.
I see in FPC's postgres.pp that it includes:
{$linklib pq}
{$linklib c}
This probably accounts for it.
I see that installer\outkafe includes libpq.dll but pointing to it with -Fl
doesn't help any. And I don't have any file named libc.dll.
Thanks.
-Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Venter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 6/3/2007 1:23 AM
To: lazarus@miraclec.com
Subject: Re: [lazarus] OutKafe 5.1.0 Released !
Hi Philip,
It should be very little - as far as I can see - it should in fact be
working - it just isn't yet (I'll bet it's a small problem though),
and then packaged so it can be installed with relative ease.
To give more idea -there is some major bug that's making it exit
without an error message on launch - dunno what that bug is - that
needs to be fixed.
The windows client should be able to take connection details from a
config file, connect to a postgresql server with an outkafe database,
and then log in etc.
Virtually all this code is written, it simply needs to be properly
ported, packaged and shipped - by somebody with the experience to do
so (I work as exclusively on Linux as you do on windows :p )
Of course the packaged version should also include whatever dll's are
needed for a windows app to be a postgresql client.
Are you up for giving it a shot ? You don't REALLY need a Linux
server, you could just set up a postgresql server on windows, load the
OutKafe table-scheme and manually generate one user to test with.
A.J.
PS. If you're really interested, I suggest we take it offlist at this
point as it's becoming less and less lazarus related :)
On 6/3/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A.J.,
>
> Still sounds interesting.
>
> Could you write a few sentences about what needs to be done to finish the
> Windows client?
>
> What's necessary for development? I work exclusively in Windows and OS X, but
> don't use Linux for anything and don't have access currently to a Linux
> machine.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Phil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A.J. Venter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sat 6/2/2007 7:40 PM
> To: lazarus@miraclec.com
> Subject: Re: [lazarus] OutKafe 5.1.0 Released !
>
> On 6/3/07, Hess, Philip J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That sound interesting. Maybe you could include that description on your
> > Web page.
> Heh, fair enough - though I thought I basically had :p
> >
> > Where does OutKafe run? Does the cafe have a network server or something
> > that the cafe's computers are hooked up to?
> OutKafe comprises basically three parts (this I KNOW is on the
> website). The postgresql database server does all the network serving,
> so I don't code any of that, I just interact with it. OutKafe has:
> 1) A daemon which counts down time on logged in accounts (it's done
> centrally for security reasons)
> 2) An administration tool which allows the icafe operator to sell
> time, create user accounts, reset passwords, define offers etc.
> 3) Client programs which let a user log in, counts him down and logs
> him out again.
> Currently only the Linux client is in a working state. The win32
> client is very close - but I need somebody with genuine windows coding
> experience to help me finish it.
> There is also a WIFI client very similiar to what you describe below,
> but that is not very complex and at this stage barely started.
> >
> > I guess I'm not familiar with Internet cafes like this. Usually here the
> > cafe has wireless and you get a login code for your laptop when you buy a
> > coffee.
> That is common in some countries, here in the developing world the
> kind with computers hooked up that you buy time on is still very
> common, for many people such outlets ARE their offices. Having a GPL'd
> tool to manage them is an important (I believe) way to ensure software
> freedom in the developing world. OutKafe is the only such tool out
> there (OpenKIOSK is only partially free software - I'm not aware of
> any other free projects that are still actively developed though there
> are quite a few proprietory ones like smartlaunch). Of course the
> whole thing is also done in Lazarus and is one of the oldest
> continuing lazarus developments (the original app was started in
> November 2002, the Lazarus website carried a story on the 3.0 release
> in May 2005).
>
> Ciao
> A.J.
>
>
> --
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> CEO - OutKast Solutions C.C.
> http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za
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