On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
> I already sent this message to the fpc-devel list (3 days ago), but I > still haven't seen it being delievered, so I'm sending it again... > > > > Basically the X11 package doesn't work. The reason is h2pas. It converts > typedef char* XPointer; > to > type TXPointer = char; > > That (of course) leads to some very nasty effects, such as different > sizes of structs (since sizeof(pchar) is 4 and sizeof(char) is 1) and > all the bad things resulting from that. e.g. even ScreenOfDisplay > doesn't work - it is actually a macro that accesses > PXPrivDisplay(dpy)^.screens[scr] and of course TXPrivDisplay is > incorrect... :) > > I can't fix h2pas, but I'm attaching diffs for the X11 units - x, xlib > and xutil. I also included a translation of the X11 keysymdefs and > implemented the macros properly in xlib and xutil, so that programming > for raw X with fpc, isn't more terrible than programming for raw X with gcc. > > The new keysym unit has to be added to the makefiles or it has to be > converted to an include file, and included in the xlib unit. BTW isn't > it better to merge the X, Xlib and Xutil units into only one unit - Xlib? > > I changed a few types to what I think is more correct. (e.g. from char > to byte, etc.) Hope that doesn't break the units from the other packages > that use xlib. (but it shouldn't, as the changes are few) Thank you very much for these fixes. I have applied the patches, and added keysym to the Makefile. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel