[fpc-pascal] using ^ in filename

2019-05-08 Thread James Richters
Does anyone know why I have issues using ^ in a filename on windows systems? Everything works fine if I just run my program and open the file with a ^ in it, the issue I am having is when sending the filename in as a parameter. If I set my parameter to File^name then Paramstr(1)= FileName.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Turbo Pascal 3 graphics

2019-05-08 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
This may be off-topic, but anyway: I did some graphics programming in the 1990s (for customers of mine), but with not so much interest on display terminals, but instead on large plotters (DIN A0 format, for example). I used a library called GKS at that time (graphics kernel system), which was

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Lambda Runtime

2019-05-08 Thread Alan Krause
Michael, Permission granted. After using FPC to produce our first Windows 64-bit library, and then using it to produce Linux libraries, I am happy to contribute something back. Cheers, Alan On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:22 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 May 2019, Alan Krause

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC Lambda Runtime

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 8 May 2019, Alan Krause wrote: FPC Community, Over the weekend I looked into AWS Lambda function custom runtimes, with the hope of being able to create one using Free Pascal. I'm happy to say that I have it up and running, and it produces a very small and quick runtime perfect for

[fpc-pascal] FPC Lambda Runtime

2019-05-08 Thread Alan Krause
FPC Community, Over the weekend I looked into AWS Lambda function custom runtimes, with the hope of being able to create one using Free Pascal. I'm happy to say that I have it up and running, and it produces a very small and quick runtime perfect for AWS. For sample code, please take at look at

Re: [fpc-pascal] error in https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/strutils/ansiindextext.htm

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 8 May 2019, Dennis wrote: I believe the red text below (in the url on the subject line) should be AnsiIndexText instead of AnsiIndexStr. Description AnsiIndexStr matches AText against each string in AValues . If a match is found, the corresponding index (zero-based) in the

[fpc-pascal] error in https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/strutils/ansiindextext.htm

2019-05-08 Thread Dennis
I believe the red text below (in the url on the subject line) should be AnsiIndexText instead of AnsiIndexStr. Description AnsiIndexStr matches AText against each string in AValues . If a match is found, the corresponding index (zero-based) in the AValues array is returned. If no match

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation confusion or error

2019-05-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 08/05/2019 12:58 pm, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Can you please create a bugreport so I will not forget ? No problem. https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35542 Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Documentation confusion or error

2019-05-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 8 May 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/longrec.html I'm referring to the documentation shown in the URL above. As far as I know the fpdoc is sensitive to which platform it is running on (unless explicitly told otherwise), and will

[fpc-pascal] Documentation confusion or error

2019-05-08 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/longrec.html I'm referring to the documentation shown in the URL above. As far as I know the fpdoc is sensitive to which platform it is running on (unless explicitly told otherwise), and will generate documentation according to that platform.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Turbo Pascal 3 graphics

2019-05-08 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Kevin Lyda schrieb am Mi., 8. Mai 2019, 10:58: > Amazingly I still have a number of my high school computer science > projects which were written in Turbo Pascal 3. And a few are almost > not horribly embarrassing. > > I'd like to port them to fpc and write up the experience but I know > what

[fpc-pascal] Turbo Pascal 3 graphics

2019-05-08 Thread Kevin Lyda
Amazingly I still have a number of my high school computer science projects which were written in Turbo Pascal 3. And a few are almost not horribly embarrassing. I'd like to port them to fpc and write up the experience but I know what the huge issue is: it uses the graphics.bin library which was

Re: [fpc-pascal] Does FPC require glibc?

2019-05-08 Thread Marco van de Voort
Op 5/7/2019 om 11:14 AM schreef Sven Barth via fpc-pascal: It depends whether the musl libc also leads to the inclusion of "libc.so.6" in the ELF files. If yes, then all should be good (except if not all calls are available, but then recompilation wouldn't help either), if not everything