Re: [fpc-devel] Masm

2014-11-08 Thread Adriaan van Os
I can not make anything of the Visual C++ produced .obj with the Microsoft provides docs. If that isn't typically Microsoft ... How to corrupt any standard by slightly modifying it I will look further to dig up some meaningful info. Amusingly, Microsofts own SDK dumpbin tool says

Re: [fpc-devel] Masm

2014-11-08 Thread Adriaan van Os
Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Adriaan van Os f...@microbizz.nl mailto:f...@microbizz.nl wrote: (to my astonishment Xcode even installs nasm). Just in case, you find this interesting: I saw that and wondered if nasm can be used with FPC on Mac OS X. What is

Re: [fpc-devel] Masm

2014-11-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, November 7, 2014 14:35, Adriaan van Os wrote: . . I still have to investigate the internal error 200602232. Have you tried Pierre's suggestion of testing it with the external linker (-Xe)? However, the Sergei's note about incomaptible use of sections between MS VCC and FPC should be

Re: [fpc-devel] fpc -h and fpc -i

2014-11-08 Thread Juha Manninen
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Tomas Hajny xhaj...@hajny.biz wrote: If you mean that FPC itself should use a JSON file for generating the help, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me (see below). I think it is a good idea if only somebody implemented it. It is not a trivial thing to

Re: [fpc-devel] safecall_exceptions in OSX

2014-11-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08/11/14 00:15, David Jenkins wrote: I have been using the safecall functionality in linux and it has been working. I now am porting the same code to OSX and find that safecall_exceptions is not turned on. In particular I need the functionality that catches the HRESULT and passes it back

Re: [fpc-devel] fpc -h and fpc -i

2014-11-08 Thread Tomas Hajny
On 8 Nov 14, at 12:15, Juha Manninen wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Tomas Hajny xhaj...@hajny.biz wrote: If you mean that FPC itself should use a JSON file for generating the help, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me (see below). I think it is a good idea if only somebody

Re: [fpc-devel] Masm

2014-11-08 Thread Adriaan van Os
Tomas Hajny wrote: On Fri, November 7, 2014 14:35, Adriaan van Os wrote: . . I still have to investigate the internal error 200602232. Have you tried Pierre's suggestion of testing it with the external linker Yes, that was the first I tried. No success. I am now experimenting with

[fpc-devel] Exception while creating process: Could not detect X-Terminal program / Fedora 20

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Frb
There is a bug report, where the user says he gets this error. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=27003#c79020 He may not have the latest Lazarus, and he still has to report his fpc version, but terminal detection does not seem to have changed that much within 2.6.x. I did ask him for

Re: [fpc-devel] fpc -h and fpc -i

2014-11-08 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Tomas Hajny xhaj...@hajny.biz wrote: If you mean that FPC itself should use a JSON file for generating the help, that doesn't sound like a good idea to me (see below). I think it

Re: [fpc-devel] Masm

2014-11-08 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Adriaan van Os adri...@microbizz.nl wrote: I saw that and wondered if nasm can be used with FPC on Mac OS X. What is the status of -Amacho, by the way ? Stalled. The same place is was 4-5 years ago. i386 only (the only hardware I had then) and no PIC support