Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-07-08 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 26 May 2016 12:43:05 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: >I got a suggestion from the Embarcadero >forum to check Synopse and there I found a single file (plus an inc) >solution to my problem. >I downloaded the PasZip.pas and Synopse.inc files from this location:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-26 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 26 May 2016 00:10:20 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: >OK, I will see if I can work with Abbrevia without installing the complete >package. Maybe I can just figure out the needed units and go with >these. If so I will post the result here (I mean which units were >needed

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-05-25 23:10, Bo Berglund wrote: > I will see if I can work with it without installing the complete > package. Maybe I can just figure out the needed units and go with > these. That's exactly what we did too. We didn't even bother installing it (visible in the Component Palette of the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 25 May 2016 21:59:21 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >On 2016-05-25 15:58, Paul Breneman wrote: >> so >> if you can figure out what part to use it should work good in Delphi and >> FPC. > >I can confirm Abbrevia worked well for a Delphi/FPC project I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-05-25 15:58, Paul Breneman wrote: > so > if you can figure out what part to use it should work good in Delphi and > FPC. I can confirm Abbrevia worked well for a Delphi/FPC project I worked on a couple years ago. I also don't recall it being difficult to use. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Paul Breneman
On 05/25/2016 09:56 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2016 08:21:54 -0500, Paul Breneman wrote: You've probably considered Abbrevia: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FreePascalArchivePackage Yes, I got that as a suggestion over at the Embarcadero forum...

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 25 May 2016 08:21:54 -0500, Paul Breneman wrote: >You've probably considered Abbrevia: >http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FreePascalArchivePackage > Yes, I got that as a suggestion over at the Embarcadero forum... But when I downloaded it from Sourceforge it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Paul Breneman
On 05/25/2016 03:00 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: I have a project that is targeting both Linux (on Raspberry Pi) and Windows. It started in Delphi 2007 and is a command line utility. It needs to use some zip compression of binary files, which must be readable both by the programs and the standard

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 25 May 2016 12:59:34 +0200 (CEST), mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote: >I would look for a ZIP codebase based on top of the zlib stream >(TCompressionstream) interfaces. > >These exist both in Delphi and FPC. I checked in the D2007 help and it did show the TCompressionstream

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using paszlib from fpc 3.0 with fpc and delphi 2007?

2016-05-25 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Bo Berglund said: > over to FPC on the RPi and compile there. > So I need a zipper that can be used in both ends and since D2007 does > not come with one built in but FPC does (paszlib), I figured I could > copy the src dir from FPC over to Delphi and use that to compress