Re: [Lazarus] A game developed with Lazarus.

2012-02-27 Thread Kjow
2012/2/13 Kjow antispamm...@gmail.com: Hi all! I added to the Lazarus wiki a video game I developed with Lazarus and GLScene: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?title=Projects_using_Lazarus#Slot_Cars_-_The_Video_Game At moment there is a demo to download and two videos on youtube.

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:18:59 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: John Repucci schrieb: I'm attempting to use thashset from the fcl-stl unit. It appears that fcl-stl is not compiled with the fpc that comes with Lazarus-0.9.31-35589-fpc-2.6.1-20120225-win32. 2.6.1

Re: [Lazarus] Android Target GUI

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 26.02.2012 14:34, Marc Santhoff wrote: Wetting my appetite here, is that program already in some repo or publicly visible? ;) Or what magazine or book do I need to buy? Look for the XFree. The current issue has

Re: [Lazarus] Android Target GUI

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the website of the FreeX magazine:  http://www.cul.de/freex.html Aha, noting that FreeX is in german. If you can't read german you can buy the Blaise Pascal Magazine:

Re: [Lazarus] Android Target GUI

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 10:03, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the website of the FreeX magazine: http://www.cul.de/freex.html Aha, noting that FreeX is in german. If you can't read

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread Alexander Shishkin
27.02.2012 12:19, Mattias Gaertner пишет: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:18:59 +0100 Hans-Peter Diettrichdrdiettri...@aol.com wrote: John Repucci schrieb: I'm attempting to use thashset from the fcl-stl unit. It appears that fcl-stl is not compiled with the fpc that comes with

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: On 26/02/2012 12:38, ik wrote: Hello, I'm trying to debug a program that I'm writing with Lazarus, and it require root privileges, but I do not want Lazarus to run as root, only the program itself for debug. How can I do that ? I

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device). You need udev rules that set the user/group permissions for the devices that you

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread ik
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 11:07, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Henry Vermaak wrote: On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device). You need udev rules that set the

[Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Church
What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants? Is it Free Pascal? -- Frank Church === http://devblog.brahmancreations.com -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] [SOLVED} fpcup: failure compiling Lazarus with FPC fixes_2.6 on OSX 10.7 x64, works with x86

2012-02-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 14-2-2012 21:30, Reinier Olislagers wrote: We're trying to set up a Lazarus/FPC combo that's independent of any already installed fpc/Lazarus installs. snip The compiler is fixes_2.6, downloaded from SVN: /Users/reinier/fpc/bin/fpc.sh -i Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.1 Compiler

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 27/02/12 10:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: On 26/02/12 13:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've had this sort of requirement in the past, specifically when using libusb (i.e. the program needed sufficient privilege to grab the device). You need udev rules that set the

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: Am 27.02.2012 11:07, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 27/02/12 10:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work otherwise.

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:50:38AM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: TDataset.freerecord. That Delphi compatible though in current delphi's that is probably empty, since tbookmark is tbytes there. There is no TDataset.freerecord() procedure in FPC trunk AFAIK. Sorry, freebookmark. Please

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 27/02/12 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The reason it didn't work as expected might have been because the insertion of otherwise-unrecognised devices in /dev/usb is a comparatively recent feature. Checking, it's not in 2.6.18 (Debian Etch) but is in 2.6.32 (Debian Lenny). Allow for a few

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, in Linux FPC should have 99%+ of the Pascal market share. Lazarus itself also has at least 95%+ of the IDE/framework marketshare. Maybe it should, but what makes you think it has 'in fact'  such a share?

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 27/02/12 11:29, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Vincent Snijders vincent.snijd...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, in Linux FPC should have 99%+ of the Pascal market share. Lazarus itself also has at least 95%+ of the IDE/framework marketshare. Maybe it should,

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 27/02/12 11:34, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: On 27/02/12 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: The reason it didn't work as expected might have been because the insertion of otherwise-unrecognised devices in /dev/usb is a comparatively recent feature. Checking, it's not in 2.6.18

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted.  Or did you just make them up?  I.e. citation needed. I invented the numbers. But if anyone thinks they are not realistic, just get the download numbers

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday 27 February 2012 12:22:58 Marco van de Voort wrote: Please add TDataset.BookmarkStr property: public property BookmarkStr: TBookmarkStr read GetBookmarkStr write SetBookmarkStr; so in user code we can have a bookmark type with automatic memory management. I'll

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Rigel Rigel
What is the main reason that Java / C + + is better known than Lazarus / FPC? INTERNET. For Example even Microsoft in his great years can't beat Internet! If you remember the advertising of one of the version of Windows was: The Internet looks like Windows! They understood that it is not so.

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 27/02/12 11:45, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaakhenry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted. Or did you just make them up? I.e. citation needed. I invented the numbers. But if anyone

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread ik
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 14:38, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to debug a program that I'm writing with Lazarus, and it require root privileges, but I do not want Lazarus to run as root, only the program itself for debug. How can I do that ? Working with gdbserver can solve

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted.  Or did you just make them up?  

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com wrote: I think Vincent is asking where you got the

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 27 februari 2012 13:18 heeft michael.vancann...@wisa.be het volgende geschreven: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread michael . vancanneyt
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 27 februari 2012 13:18 heeft michael.vancann...@wisa.be het volgende geschreven: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote: Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com het volgende

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel : Web Programing. I know only one web sait written in Lazarus: www.lazarussupport.com. Here you go, here is a wiki engine and website I wrote in Object Pascal. It's a very small application, but it's a website written in Object Pascal, using the Lazarus IDE (though any

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel ri...@gbg.bg: Interten applications like below was writen on C/C++ I never heard of a web page written in C/C++ Even Lazarus use qt, gtk... Not necessarely. In LCL for Android everything is done in Lazarus itself: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 February 2012 13:29, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Kylix is dead. Some products just know know when to die, do they? ;-) I actually know of quite a few commercial applications still written with Kylix today. Beyond Compare 3 from Scooter Software would be an obvious one. The fact

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 February 2012 13:53, Henry Vermaak wrote: NB: I'm not doubting the popularity of fpc/lazarus, but you can't just make up statistics. +1 on both counts. -- Regards,   - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 12:13, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: Sven Barth wrote: Am 27.02.2012 11:07, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread John Repucci
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:20:02 +0400 From: Alexander Shishkin alexv...@mail.ru Subject: Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Message-ID: 4f4b4ac2.4070...@mail.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 27.02.2012 12:19, Mattias

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 27 februari 2012 13:30 heeft michael.vancann...@wisa.be het volgende geschreven: Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: With 'not *so* popular' I meant having 95 or 99% of the market share. Ehm, market

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Take a look at any RPM package search page: http://rpmfind.net/ Found 157 RPM for fpc Found 3 RPM for gpc (all of them in very old Mandriva versions) You can't even find GPC packages in newer distributions. See also: http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=gpc Appears in Ubuntu 10. Disappeared from

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 14:47, schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: Take a look at any RPM package search page: http://rpmfind.net/ Found 157 RPM for fpc Found 3 RPM for gpc (all of them in very old Mandriva versions) You can't even find GPC packages in newer distributions. See also:

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:35:08 +0100 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: I never heard of a web page written in C/C++ http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main or http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/ R. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 14:15, schrieb John Repucci: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:20:02 +0400 From: Alexander Shishkin alexv...@mail.ru mailto:alexv...@mail.ru Subject: Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread ik
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 15:56, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: ik wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 14:38, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to debug a program that I'm writing with Lazarus, and it require root privileges, but I do not want Lazarus to run

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/02/2012 21:51, Frank Church wrote: [...] You have Delphi to blame here, because somehow Borland's marketing of Delphi deemphasized the Pascal dimension of Delphi with the effect that most people don't identify Pascal with Delphi. The terms FPC and Lazarus don't give any indication that

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Church
On 27 February 2012 10:15, Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com wrote: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants? Is it Free Pascal? -- Frank Church What license are FPC and Lazarus, are they GPL? I think somehow a way must be found of getting Pascal identified with

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 15:14, schrieb Frank Church: What license are FPC and Lazarus, are they GPL? The compiler and the IDE themselves are GPL, but their libraries (RTL, FCL, LCL) are released under a modified LGPL (to allow static linking in commercial projects) 2. A way must be found of

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2012/2/27 Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com: 1. Establish Free Pascal as THE Pascal, THE Object (based) Pascal on Linux While I disagree that any serious competition to FPC exists in Linux, you should know that FPC has never been monopolist. Competition is widely seen as something good. Having

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/27/2012 05:11, Sven Barth wrote: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't work otherwise. I already managed the

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 16:06, schrieb waldo kitty: On 2/27/2012 05:11, Sven Barth wrote: I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but my understanding is that you do since there is one specific kernel call (in effect, telling the kernel to release an unrecognised device to an unprivileged program) that won't

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread John Repucci
From: Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com I did a quick test by manually building and installing FPC 2.7.1 on i386-win32. There fcl-stl is included in the installation. But you are indeed right that it is not included in the snapshot download. Please file a bug report. Regards, Sven

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 16:11, schrieb John Repucci: From: Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com I did a quick test by manually building and installing FPC 2.7.1 on i386-win32. There fcl-stl is included in the installation. But you are indeed right

Re: [Lazarus] run program in ide with sudo for debug purpose

2012-02-27 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/27/2012 10:09, Sven Barth wrote: Am 27.02.2012 16:06, schrieb waldo kitty: why not just add your user(s) to that group the device was in? this would/should give the same access capabilities... or am i missing something else? The USB device files are by default created with root:root. I

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:14:07PM +, Frank Church wrote: dialects. There is more or less only one Ruby, And which one is that, JRuby(*), IronRuby(**), or Ruby-on-parrot(***))? (*) http://www.jruby.org Reworked On top of Java (*) http://ironruby.net/ reworekd on top of .NET (**)

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 03:59:35PM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: 2012/2/27 Frank Church vfcli...@gmail.com: 1. Establish Free Pascal as THE Pascal, THE Object (based) Pascal on Linux While I disagree that any serious competition to FPC exists in Linux, you should know that FPC

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:53:21PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: http://rpmfind.net/ Found 157 RPM for fpc Found 3 RPM for gpc (all of them in very old Mandriva versions) You can't even find GPC packages in newer distributions. See also: http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=gpc

Re: [Lazarus] fcl-stl / thashset question

2012-02-27 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Mattias Gaertner schrieb: I have ghashset.ppu and .o in fcl-stl/units/i386-win32. That's only the precompiled version. He was asking about the installed version of the ppu file. Sorry, I didn't understand installed, in Lazarus context. Only after reading further replies I realized that the

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Monday 27 February 2012 20:32:29 Marco van de Voort wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48:29PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: I'll study if the normal tbookmark can change to tbytes short term. If not, I'll add the bookmarkstr as deprecated property for time being. Using TBytes as

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 February 2012 22:48, Marco van de Voort wrote: I'm not sure if products that hinge on the last version of a series are really relevant. My point was more about the fact that Scooter Software has applied there own fixes to CLX, and have also upgraded their Kylix 3 to use Qt3 (instead of

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:51:41PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: If so, please also note the other interface related change: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk Thanks. The problem with some of the recent Delphi compatibility changes is that it breaks Delphi 7

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin Schreiber schrieb: Thanks. The problem with some of the recent Delphi compatibility changes is that it breaks Delphi 7 compatibility. +1 :-( IMO at least a stable D7 compatible version/branch is required, which may be extended to the last Delphi AnsiString version (D2007?). This

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:00:14AM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Martin Schreiber schrieb: Thanks. The problem with some of the recent Delphi compatibility changes is that it breaks Delphi 7 compatibility. +1 :-( IMO at least a stable D7 compatible version/branch is required,

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Peterson
On 2/27/2012 4:21 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: My point was more about the fact that Scooter Software has applied there own fixes to CLX, and have also upgraded their Kylix 3 to use Qt3 (instead of Qt 2.3 which came with Kylix). Actually, the upgrade to Qt 3 was Andreas Hausladen's doing,

[Lazarus] upx dont work

2012-02-27 Thread Ing . Héctor F . Fiandor Rosario
Dear colleagues: i have used por many years the upx for compact the executable files. Really, it have worked pretty well. today, i have tried to compact an executable but i have obtained a nom good result. previously i have used the strip to reduce the weight from more or less 30 Mb to 3

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Breneman
Martin Schreiber wrote: ... A side mark: I don't think using the old ansistring as combined binary and character buffer is such a bad thing. I completely agree and was surprised to read opposite opinions here. Since 1985 I've been telling people this is my favorite feature so I can use

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/25 Frank Church vfclists@ The terms FPC and Lazarus don't give any indication that Pascal is the language. I only noticed now that your statement is totally wrong. You do realise that FPC is an acronym for Free Pascal Compiler?  Note the word Pascal? You can't get much clearer

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Rigel Rigel
От: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Относно: Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong? До: Lazarus mailing list Изпратено на: Понеделник, 2012, Февруари 27 14:35:08 EET 2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel : Interten applications like below was writen on C/C++ I never heard of a web page written

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread zeljko
On Monday 27 of February 2012 23:21:31 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 27 February 2012 22:48, Marco van de Voort wrote: I'm not sure if products that hinge on the last version of a series are really relevant. My point was more about the fact that Scooter Software has applied there own fixes

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread zeljko
On Tuesday 28 of February 2012 00:58:20 Craig Peterson wrote: On 2/27/2012 4:21 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: My point was more about the fact that Scooter Software has applied there own fixes to CLX, and have also upgraded their Kylix 3 to use Qt3 (instead of Qt 2.3 which came with Kylix).

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 12:00 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: a stable D7 compatible version/branch is required, IMHO a compiler switch (Lazarus Project menu option) should be provided (D7 compatibility or non-Unicode or something like this) There are decent projects for which a user interface is of

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/27/2012 09:51 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote: A side mark: I don't think using the old ansistring as combined binary and character buffer is such a bad thing. + 1/2 It would be better to have a type that 1:1 allows for all the well known string operations, replacing Character by Byte:

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 28 February 2012 09:02, zeljko zeljko@ wrote: While there are updates for K3 + Qt3 support (even I contributed and used that) there's another problem: you cannot run K3 on any distro with glibc = 2.4, and that's problem (so it must be at least 6-7 yrs old distro). I don't really see

Re: [Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 03:13 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: so I can use strings as binary communication buffers and let the compiler deal with everything and it all just works... :) Yep. There is no logical reason to think other, but the fear that string is a moving target regarding the unavoidable

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread zeljko
On Tuesday 28 of February 2012 08:23:35 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I'm not saying Kylix 3 is still a booming product (it isn't), I'm just saying that some companies invested heavily in Kylix or CLX development, and simply can't move away from it. My company also invested a lot into kylix, but

Re: [Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/27/2012 09:02 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: While GPC is not very active atm, and a case could be made that it is dead, They (unfortunately) did not follow FPC on the path to Object Pascal (Delphi and Apple style). If FPC programs could be compiled using gcc, we could port Lazarus / FPC

Re: [Lazarus] upx dont work

2012-02-27 Thread Miquel Bruns
Hector, Buenos dias. Yo uso en Opciones de proyecto/Enlazando marco casilla usar archivo externo de simbolos para reducir el peso del ejecutable. [I use Proyect Option/Liniking click on Use external dgb debug symbol file to reduce the executable wheight] Lo habias probado? Un saludo, On