Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

2017-01-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Bo, Extract the archive file, then run the setup script. That's all. The script will then take care of the rest, including giving you option to choose the minimal fpc 3.0 arm compiler install location, as well as creating a debian style ".desktop" file to open a terminal with the minimal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

2017-01-04 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Bo Berglund wrote: > I just need the seed compiler to be able to build FPC from sources. > And build Lazarus of course. Then you need "ppcarm" from that archive, and nothing else. Just copy it whereever you want, in your home dir, or something and do: make all install

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

2017-01-04 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:00:22 -0500, Anthony Walter wrote: >Here is a minimal FPC for the Pi: > >https://www.getlazarus.org/setup/minimal/ > >It's compact, installs in your home folder, and include a terminal shortcut. Thanks, I downloaded from the RaspberryPi link:

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

2017-01-04 Thread Anthony Walter
Here is a minimal FPC for the Pi: https://www.getlazarus.org/setup/minimal/ It's compact, installs in your home folder, and include a terminal shortcut. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

2017-01-04 Thread Bo Berglund
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 08:15:51 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote: >I have a script for building FPC and Lazarus from scratch on Raspberry >Pi. This script starts by downloading the seed compiler from this >location:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Untyped var params

2017-01-04 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: > But how do you assign to “something" then if you don’t know the type? The > param is “var” so shouldn’t I be able to assign to the param and return it > back to the caller? In your example how could I return 5 to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Untyped var params

2017-01-04 Thread Ryan Joseph
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev > wrote: > > var > i: integer; > begin > i:=5; > GetSometing(i) > But how do you assign to “something" then if you don’t know the type? The param is “var” so shouldn’t I be able to assign to the param and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Untyped var params

2017-01-04 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ryan Joseph wrote: > I’ve seen functions that use the untyped params like: > > function GetSomething (var something): boolean; > > This seems like something useful I would like to use but how can you > assign to the parameter? I tried

[fpc-pascal] Untyped var params

2017-01-04 Thread Ryan Joseph
I’ve seen functions that use the untyped params like: function GetSomething (var something): boolean; This seems like something useful I would like to use but how can you assign to the parameter? I tried but I got an error message which is confusing because it’s a “var” after all. Thanks.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-04 Thread geneb
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