[Lazarus] Lazarus on the move.

Hi all, The past few years the Lazarus services were hosted by firmos.at . A month ago we received the sad news that the services cannot be continued. We would like to thank Helmut for those years. Tonight we will move the mailing list, the forum and the website. We try to limit the

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

On 26/05/2016 06:31, Dennis wrote: I am using Lazarus 1.7 (2016-04-20) with FPC 3.1.1 Great Work guys! However, the gdb that comes with it is not as good. I know debugger is hard to write so I am not blaming it. I just hope someone can share some tips or settings tricks that I can, perhaps,

Re: [Lazarus] Write to UNC or mapped drive

El 26/05/16 a las 08:22, Santiago A. escribió: El 25/05/2016 a las 21:48, Marc Weustink escribió: Correct. Drivemappings are user specific. You get the same if you want to run something as administrator from a mapping. More than user specific are desktop session specific. Depends on

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

On 2016-05-26 16:17, leledumbo wrote: > or higher title Luckily I fall under that title. ;-) Regards, Graeme -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

> Why are you running anti-virus software on a development machine in the > first place? That’s been a known fact in all companies I’ve worked for - > don’t do it. Thinking about it, I haven’t run any anti-virus software > for over 10 years. If you have a paranoid managers, you can't do

Re: [Lazarus] Write to UNC or mapped drive

El 25/05/2016 a las 21:48, Marc Weustink escribió: > Correct. Drivemappings are user specific. You get the same if you want > to run something as administrator from a mapping. More than user specific are desktop session specific. > Depends on windows version, iirc on modern versions local system

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

Neither do I. Just making the point in case that was where the problem lay. On 26/05/16 10:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Why are you running anti-virus software on a development machine in the first place? That’s been a known fact in all companies I’ve worked for - don’t do it. Thinking about

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

Am 26.05.2016 10:41 schrieb "Tony Whyman" : > I take Graeme's point about GDN not being that great for Pascal, but it does work most of the time and adding a few well placed "writeln" statements often makes up for any deficiencies (again much easier under Linux due

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

On 2016-05-26 10:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Use YouTube and search for some debugging tutorials using > QtCreator, Intellij IDEA or Eclipse. Hell, even Delphi can be added to > that list. They all show how debuggers could and should work. None of > the show using writeln() statements. Even

[Lazarus] Memory leak with Synchronize on external threads

There is a memory consumption/leak using the TThread.Synchronize function. A callback function is called out of another ("external") thread (from an loaded DLL). Inside the callback function a synchronized call to a procedure has to be done. Every thing works without error, but there is a memory

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

On 2016-05-26 09:40, Tony Whyman wrote: > Are you using Windows or Linux (or OSX)? or FreeBSD or Solaris or AIX or RaspberryPi or GameBoy or OS/2 or DOS or Android or WinCE or Arm Embedded or Haiku or ReactOS or ;-) > Windows anti-virus software will often get in the way as well as it >

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

Are you using Windows or Linux (or OSX)? In my experience, GDB runs better under Linux than Windows. Under Windows anti-virus software will often get in the way as well as it being generally slower. I take Graeme's point about GDN not being that great for Pascal, but it does work most of

Re: [Lazarus] GDB is not good, any tricks to improve it?

On 2016-05-26 06:31, Dennis wrote: > However, the gdb that comes with it is not as good. That’s the understatement of the year. Yes GDB might be great for its primary language it was designed for C and C++, but it sure sucks for Object Pascal. So much so that I’m seriously considering moving all

Re: [Lazarus] 1.6.0-fpc-3.0.0-win64.exe

On 25/05/2016 18:47, Larry Dalton wrote: I have been using 1.2.4 win32 because of a printer issue when trying to use the 64 bit compiler. Are there any printer issues with the new version? FYI, you can install 1.6.0 as a secondary instance (using the option provided during the installation)