Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-08 Thread brian
On 01/05/2011 10:18 PM, waldo kitty wrote: On 1/5/2011 12:33, Micha Nelissen wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-08 Thread Salvatore Coppola
2011/1/6 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl If l interpreted the screenshots correctly, it is plaxis: http://www.plaxis.nl/page/home/ You are correct, it is Plaxis. I did not do any work on the application itself, just did a pilot conversion to see how portable the code is to FPC. I believe

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-06 Thread Vincent Snijders
2011/1/6 Salvatore Coppola coppolastu...@gmail.com: Hi Jansen although it is no longer my main job I am geotechnical engineer and I'm curious on the finite elements application: did you do it? is it in pascal? what is his name? If l interpreted the screenshots correctly, it is plaxis:

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-06 Thread Birger Jansen
If l interpreted the screenshots correctly, it is plaxis: http://www.plaxis.nl/page/home/ You are correct, it is Plaxis. I did not do any work on the application itself, just did a pilot conversion to see how portable the code is to FPC. I believe this application, like many in its genre,

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Micha Nelissen
Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function declarations? Calling the fortran code from

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Sven Barth
On 05.01.2011 18:33, Micha Nelissen wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread waldo kitty
On 1/5/2011 12:33, Micha Nelissen wrote: Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. You couldn't translate the code or the function

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-05 Thread Salvatore Coppola
2011/1/3 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl Hi all, Last month I converted a 500.000 lines Delphi project to FreePascal, and I wanted to thank those who replied to my questions over the mailing list and the whole FPC / Lazarus team for delivering a great product. Also all contributors to wiki

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-04 Thread Juha Manninen
2011/1/4 Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com Well, there were two different problems: 1) My intrinsic lack of Fortran know-how 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Schnell
On 01/04/2011 12:46 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input matrices. With Fortran in a function, the array idex bounds can be obtained from

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-04 Thread Bo Berglund
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:12:50 +0100, Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de wrote: On 01/04/2011 12:46 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: 2) The fortran code failed to translate when it turned out that Fortran could change the type of a matrix multiplication depending on the dimensions of the two input

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-04 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Juha Manninen schrieb: I converted a fair amount of them but when I reached this problem I had a lot to go and gave up. Interesting. I don't know Fortran either but it looked like it could map directly to Pascal. Apparently it does not. Fortran uses COMMON blocks for data

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Impressive! Looks an idea candidate for being added here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Application_Gallery -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Darius Blaszyk
Hi Birger, The list is definitely of interest to me and others! If possible please create patches and add them to the bug tracker. This will help not only future conversions but ordinary projects as well. Regards, Darius On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Birger Jansen wrote: Hi all, Last

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Birger Jansen
Hi Darius, The list is definitely of interest to me and others! If possible please create patches and add them to the bug tracker. This will help not only future conversions but ordinary projects as well. I'll clean up the list and post it on the mailing list. I didn't need to create any

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:14:16 +0100, Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl wrote: Hi all, Last month I converted a 500.000 lines Delphi project to FreePascal, and I wanted to thank those who replied to my questions over the mailing list and the whole FPC / Lazarus team for delivering a great product.

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Birger Jansen
Hi Bo, Really great! I have a similar problem in conversion to FPC/Lazarus of a visualization package of physical data. But this package uses number crunching DLL:s created using an Intel Fortran compiler... I didn't have a look at the processing part of the application, but I believe this

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-01-03 13:48, Bo Berglund het geskryf: Finally a little hint: When you make screenshots to post it is usually much better to save them as PNG files rather than JPG. JPG is lossy and the first things that go are straight lines and text, which becomes blurry. PNG is non-loss and also

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Juha Manninen
2011/1/3 Birger Jansen bir...@cnoc.nl For most of the encountered issues I created a list with their solution, I'll try to clean it up and see if I can post it somewhere because it might also be helpful for others. Such a list could also help a future automatic conversion. Currently any real

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Juha Manninen
2011/1/3 Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com Really great! I have a similar problem in conversion to FPC/Lazarus of a visualization package of physical data. But this package uses number crunching DLL:s created using an Intel Fortran compiler... Bo, so you finally didn't get your Fortran code

Re: [Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi - FreePascal: success!

2011-01-03 Thread Bo Berglund
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:39:00 +0200, Juha Manninen juha.mannine...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/3 Bo Berglund bo.bergl...@gmail.com Really great! I have a similar problem in conversion to FPC/Lazarus of a visualization package of physical data. But this package uses number crunching DLL:s created