Re: [fpc-devel] Portability Standards

2005-01-06 Thread DrDiettrich
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: POSIX says nothing about pascal, it's basically a C interface. To me POSIX means primarily the very different file handling, with regards to devices, path separators, owner/group/world access rights etc. This is what bites not only me when porting GNU software to

Re: [fpc-devel] Portability Standards

2005-01-06 Thread DrDiettrich
Tomas Hajny wrote: I only don't know how to implement or check the other branches - is the Windows version of FPC equipped for crosscompilation? The compiler itself can compile for all platforms listed in help pages The problem is that the installed FPC doesn't show any help - no files

Re: [fpc-devel] FPC 1.9.6 (a.k.a. 2.0.0-RC1) is out

2005-01-06 Thread DrDiettrich
Peter Vreman wrote: If no major bugs are found, version 2.0 will be released in a short timeframe. Only one major problem so far. Congratulations! :-) So let me list the problems I encountered with a preceding version: - Mouse buttons inoperative (W2K, no menu selection...) - \\