> > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 1/2/2005 12:31:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> writes: >> >> The Free Pascal Team is pleased to announce that FPC version 1.9.6 >> (or 2.0.0-RC1) is available and ready for download. >> >> >> >> Thanks, Michael. >> >> Downloaded it this morning and it seems to be working nicely. Do have a >> couple issues a couple questions and a monster KUDO. Will do the issues >> first: >> 1) The Win32 installer does not install the utils folder. It's in the >> download, but doesn't get installed. Easily corrected by just unzipping >> it manually. > > Known and fixed for next release. > >> 2) There is no demo folder, and hence, can't do the simple check with >> hello.pp that is referenced in the README > > Known and fixed for next release. > >> 3) The source directories on the download sites are still empty. Are >> they >> still coming or am I looking in the wrong place, >> which leads to my first question: > > I think you are looking in the wrong place? > >> 1) I have been keeping up-to-date at the source level with CVS updates >> every >> couple days. Can I just keep building on my current source tree with CVS >> updates or do I need to do a complete new CVS checkout (please say yes, >> my >> network connection stinks!!) > > You can continue to use CVS. > >> 2) It's really nice to have debugger (gdb) support in the IDE again. I >> get >> it every time I load a new binary and lose it again every time I install >> a >> snapshot compiling the sources. What the heck do I have to do to keep >> getting >> the IDE and GDB connected under Windows. I've downloaded every >> concievable >> flavor of GDB I can find (the GNU .gz version, Cygwin, MingW) I'm sure >> I've got >> every thing I need to keep it working but I'll be darned if I can >> figure out >> what I need to do/configure to make it all work together. > > This is something for Peter Vreman or Florian Klaempfl. I use Linux, and > have never > been able to build an IDE with debugger support myself.
Download ftp://ftp.nl.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/libgdb/v6.2.1/libgdb-6.2.1-i386-win32.zip and unzip in the fpc dir and rebuild everything. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
