Compiling under Lazarus trunk applications which were written under
Lazarus 1.4.x, I find a lot of unresolved symbols. All the xxxUTF8
procedures in fileutil such as FileExistsUTF8, FileOpenUTF8
GetEnvironmentVariableUTF8 etc have disappeared. They are hidden behind
an $IFDEF EnableWrapperFunctions. By the way those procedures were
generated by the conversion of Delphi code under Lazarus 1.4.
I understand that the widestring manager is not needed in most cases,
and therefore those functions are pretty much useless outside Windows,
(they have always been btw?) but an $ELSE clause preserving the names,
and redirecting as appropriate, would be the only acceptable solution by
an end user POV.
FPC goes to one extreme, keeping stone age old constructs to maintain
compatibility with the source code of TP, Lazarus should at least
attempt to keep source code compatibility within 1.x!
End of rant.
Giuliano
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