Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

Am 18.08.2017 01:17 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > On 2017-08-17 21:47, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> You can use -l:libgreat.so.1 with gcc to link to a specific library version >> (iirc). > > > I'll have to take your word for it Henry, as I don't know GCC much -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On Thursday 17 August 2017 22:20:44 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to > > use the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example? > > I forked the xlib, xutils and x

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal support in the Kattis educational site

The results may be sorted also by language name and so all C++ results comes in before Pascal even if runtime is the same. Your program was as fast as No1 but anyway not visible among top ten. This outrageous! ;-) On 08/17/2017 10:21 AM, Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote: A bit of news which I think

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On 2017-08-17 22:17, Marco van de Voort wrote: if some distribution halfway through the release cycle starts packaging a new version. But surely then the program would be broken anyway - in the case of a major version number bump. It is well known that major version changes mean two versions

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On 2017-08-17 21:47, Henry Vermaak wrote: You can use -l:libgreat.so.1 with gcc to link to a specific library version (iirc). I'll have to take your word for it Henry, as I don't know GCC much - only the bare minimum to compile small C projects. I normally specify things like -lpthreads

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

Am 17.08.2017 22:20 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote: >> >> Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to use >> the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example? > > > I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said: > > nevertheless be failures if the applications > > is programmed against the interface of the older v1 library (maybe they > > changed the memory management for v2 and the problem will only manifest at > > runtime). > > > Exactly. So why not use

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On 17 Aug 2017 21:21, "Graeme Geldenhuys" wrote: On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote: > Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to > use > the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example? > I forked the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On 2017-08-17 16:52, Martin Schreiber wrote: Exactly. So why not use the SONAME in the Pascal binding unit instead to use the base name as Free Pascal currently does in xlib.pp for example? I forked the xlib, xutils and x units from FPC and tried just that. It made no difference. When I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial communications: synaser vs FPC's serial unit

On 2017-08-17 18:05, gebylist wrote: For most actual Synaser version you must look at Synapse SVN server.;-) Synaser have class TBlockSerial. It can work with*any* device name. (It know to emulate Windows COMxx names on Linux too.) Thank you Lukas, I'll make sure to get the latest from SVN

Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial communications: synaser vs FPC's serial unit

Dne 17.08.2017 v 15:45 Graeme Geldenhuys napsal(a): > > Now for the Synaser unit - the one I have is from 2013, and I already > noticed that there is no support for FreeBSD's /dev/* names to access > serial ports. Granted I added FreeBSD support to the > GetSerialPortNames() function in 5

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On Thursday 17 August 2017 17:31:46 Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > Am 17.08.2017 15:49 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < > > mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > On 2017-08-16 18:14, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > >> As you can see the program will work correctly as long as the > >> libX11.so.6

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

Am 17.08.2017 15:49 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > On 2017-08-16 18:14, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: >> >> As you can see the program will work correctly as long as the >> libX11.so.6 file exists (even though that is a symlink itself, but the >> X11 project

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

On 2017-08-16 18:14, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: As you can see the program will work correctly as long as the libX11.so.6 file exists (even though that is a symlink itself, but the X11 project guarantees that different libX11.so.6.x.y are compatible to eachother), because the linker picks

[fpc-pascal] Serial communications: synaser vs FPC's serial unit

Hi, If somebody with more experience (than me) with the Synaser and FPC serial.pp units could comment, that would be much appreciated. For a new cross-platform project where I need to talk to a device hooked up to a serial port, which unit would be the best to use? Normally I would go with

Re: [fpc-pascal] homepage - no foundation link

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm going blind (considering the amount of screen time its very likely), but I don't see any link to the Free Pascal Foundation from the Free Pascal homepage? https://www.freepascal.org/ Why is that? Surely the two should be

[fpc-pascal] homepage - no foundation link

Hi, Maybe I'm going blind (considering the amount of screen time its very likely), but I don't see any link to the Free Pascal Foundation from the Free Pascal homepage? https://www.freepascal.org/ Why is that? Surely the two should be related. On a side note: Also, why isn't there a

[fpc-pascal] Pascal support in the Kattis educational site

A bit of news which I think has some interest here: "Kattis" (open.kattis.com) is a site where students can make programming exercises. This is quite important IMHO; companies look at Kattis results when recruiting. Recently, Kattis added Pascal support, using FPC 3.0.0! (Free Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] TStringList - Strange quotation mark handling

On 16/08/17 15:45, Benito van der Zander wrote: > Hi, [sorry I could not stop myself from reordering your top-post] > Am 16.08.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Gabor Boros: >> 2017. 08. 16. 15:21 keltezéssel, Michael Van Canneyt írta: >>> Because the quotes must be the first and last character of each >>>