Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to get e.g. Indy involved until we're sure the compiler is error-free. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
appeared OK. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: SkyDiablo wrote: Am 29.10.2012 15:53, schrieb Lukasz Sokol: You produced an /executable/ ? Then why not just do ./helloWorld4MIPS in the dir where the binary is copied to ? (yes, dot-slash is needed unless you have this directory added to PATH) AFAIK, doing sh

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
done it under Windows. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

[Lazarus] Running on mipsel (was: Re: Cross-compiling - MIPS)

2012-10-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Henry Vermaak wrote: I built lazarus with fpc 2.7.1 for armhf this weekend. Why do you say 2.6.0 is needed? Because of the feeling with which most developers insist that 2.6.0 is the one true way :-) OK, I'll try it for MIPS in a couple of days. I presume you

Re: [Lazarus] Running on mipsel

2012-10-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 25.10.2012 20:03, Bernd wrote: 2012/10/25 Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: something else appeared to be messing up e.g. the IDE's ability to store/access ~/.lazarus configuration settings: because of this lazbuild wasn't able to build a trivial test

Re: [Lazarus] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
\fpcsrc\compiler\mipsel\pp.exe and now ? what i have to do now ? how can i compile my hello-world project for linux with a MIPS CPU ? Have you checked the compiler you've built using the -i option? Have you compiled the RTL? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
at http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2012-October/030071.html which might be a better place to discuss things if you have problems building the compiler. Note that I'm a long way down the list as far as skill is concerned, and make no claim to understand what I'm doing. -- Mark Morgan

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
processor type, opcode formats and so on (just leave these set to the default). http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20310 http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20311 -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Cross-compiling - MIPS

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
you were using Lazarus trunk. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Include files extension

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
where the executable normally doesn't. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Please define delphi compatibility

2012-10-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of incorporating packaged extensions. As with most if not all open source projects, if we don't like it we can fork off. However my own position is that I trust the core developers, who are effectively defined by their understanding of how the code works. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Can not load PostgreSQL Client librarylibpq.dll.

2012-09-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/ if the alternative is to use MS runtimes in a VM on top of Linux. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Error: Can not load PostgreSQL Client librarylibpq.dll.

2012-09-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 29-9-2012 17:17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: zeljko wrote: On Saturday 29 of September 2012 11:14:58 Ludo Brands wrote: LPK.DLLLanguage PackMicrosoft Corporation5.01.2600.2180 MSVCR90.dllMicrosoft® C Runtime LibraryMicrosoft Corporation

Re: [Lazarus] Find declaration bug?

2012-09-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
it is not available for Win32. Right click/Open File at Cursor opens it too as expected. Should Find Declaration open it in the first place? I submitted a patch which added Windows support about a year ago. Hasn't been applied. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 17:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: suggestion of looking at the VLC sources I see they use it which has to be a recommendation. Interesting... I was wondering what they did. :) I'll see what I can work

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
in gtk2widgetset.inc, so there you can see howto get XWindow handle and do whatever with it with direct calls. Go on then: how do I temporarily defeat the screensaver? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

[Lazarus] An Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
In case anybody isn't aware, there has been discussion of this in the fpc-devel mailing list but it's now being encouraged to move to fpc-other. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 17:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: suggestion of looking at the VLC sources I see they use it which has to be a recommendation. Interesting... I was wondering what they did. :) I'll see what I can work in, but particularly

[Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
even if the GUI's not being updated, is it possible to do anything that the LCL and lower levels will interpret similarly to keyboard and mouse activity in order to prevent a screen saver from kicking in? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 11:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: interpret similarly to keyboard and mouse activity in order to prevent a screen saver from kicking in? Maybe download the VLC Player source code, and see what they do to disable the screensaver while a video is playing. I

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 11:55, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: stringgrid with an updating field on the screen, I've not yet tried e.g. simulating a shiftkey event. Another option. From the 'man xscreensaver-command' output. - -deactivate This tells

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 25/09/12 11:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I appreciate that there might be no guaranteed portable answer to this one, and FWIW I'm primarily interested in the Linux+X+KDE combination. If a program knows that something's going on that it might later need to tell the user

Re: [Lazarus] Defeating a screen saver

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2012-09-25 17:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: suggestion of looking at the VLC sources I see they use it which has to be a recommendation. Interesting... I was wondering what they did. :) I'll see what I can work in, but particularly allowing that xdg-screensaver

Re: [Lazarus] Cannot load libpq.so

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
about how best to expose this to programmers via the LCL. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Bernd wrote: 2012/9/16 Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk: interesting question: can Lazarus+gdb be persuaded to trace into a shared library? While developing the libpurpletorchat plugin (a libpurple plugin) I did not notice any problems debugging

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: On 19/09/2012 15:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: please do. Though it may be a while till I process it. I am away this week. No significant urgency from my POV, but it's something that I'm looking at on an ongoing basis. Do you have

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've developed a useful convention which allows me to either load a library on demand (via Dynlibs) or to link it statically. This combination allows me to use standard Lazarus debugging techniques to sort out most problems. However, yesterday's discussion about

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ik wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've developed a useful convention which allows me to either load a library on demand (via Dynlibs) or to link it statically. This combination allows me to use standard

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 16/09/12 14:26, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've developed a useful convention which allows me to either load a library on demand (via Dynlibs) or to link it statically. This combination allows me to use standard Lazarus debugging techniques to sort out most problems

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 19/09/2012 09:39, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: However, yesterday's discussion about calling /from/ a dynamically-loaded library /into/ a program binary (other than the main program) raises an interesting question: can Lazarus+gdb be persuaded to trace

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 19/09/2012 14:01, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: apparently (on win it requires at least gdb 7.2 or 7.3 (not sure). GDB can set the breakpoints before the lib is loaded, and gdb does then set them on load. (NOT sure if you can use openlibrary). It's on a long list of things

Re: [Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin wrote: On 19/09/2012 15:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Martin wrote: please do. Though it may be a while till I process it. I am away this week. No significant urgency from my POV, but it's something that I'm looking at on an ongoing basis. Do you have a Linux development machine

Re: [Lazarus] Version info

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 17/09/12 17:06, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I sympathise with the OP though: the Lazarus IDE has facilities to insert version information, so how can you get at that even if it means Yeah, those options are pretty pointless on any platform - except Windows. Let's

Re: [Lazarus] Lazbuild on IBM Power6 (OpenSuse Linux)

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:02:30 +0200Chavoux Luyt chav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leonardo On 17 September 2012 13:53, Leonardo M. Ramé l.r...@griensu.com wrote: On 2012-09-17 09:18:22 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:I've installed FPC 2.7.1

Re: [Lazarus] Version info

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/should/ be in the scope of the xdg utilities, but appears not to be implemented. Until then, the best that can be done is to rely on every program implementing --version and --help. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his

Re: [Lazarus] Lazbuild on IBM Power6 (OpenSuse Linux)

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: On 2012-09-18 09:36:02 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:02:30 +0200Chavoux Luyt chav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leonardo On 17 September 2012 13:53, Leonardo M. Ramé l.r...@griensu.com wrote: On 2012-09-17 09:18:22 +

Re: [Lazarus] Stable islands: testing stability

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
it was created at? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] Lazbuild on IBM Power6 (OpenSuse Linux)

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
for the record please: is this 64- or 32-bit? Also assuming FPC and Lazarus both trunk, what revision numbers? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Stable islands: testing stability

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
with versions that I'm pretty sure I've built from svn: 0 2markMLl@pye-dev-01:~$ ppcsparc-2.7.1 -iW 2.7.1 -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] Version info

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
.) to extract it? And for that matter, how can one merge svn information into it? :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

[Lazarus] Debugging shared libraries

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
-loaded library /into/ a program binary (other than the main program) raises an interesting question: can Lazarus+gdb be persuaded to trace into a shared library? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Wiki: how to propose deleting a page?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
alltogether would be better. Although the unexpurgated original will remain visible at archive.org, unless the wiki manager adds a don't index file which (when I last looked at this) they obey as soon as they see it. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
is, of course, a different question. And whether there's a methodology which would allow a hybrid program/library to be useful (e.g. by having the program entry point test the functionality of the library entry points) is another. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
as DLL. That's the reason why there is a program called rundll32 ;) [though it expects an exported function with a certain signature...] Thanks for that, interesting and potentially useful. Can you comment on the situation for ELF-based OSes such as Linux? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Juha Manninen wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: I'm definitely passing strings between a .so and main program, both written using Lazarus. So e.g. a frontend program can call these from the backend: Maybe my knowledge

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. Hypothetical case in which this sort of thing could be useful: if run as a program the library outputs a .inc or .h file describing its exports. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 15.09.2012 12:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: /Why/ can't a library be run standalone? We're already at the position that an executable can decide whether it's been invoked from a shell or the GUI and behave as appropriate, so why can't it decide whether

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 15.09.2012 13:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: On 15.09.2012 12:36, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Sven Barth wrote: /Why/ can't a library be run standalone? We're already at the position that an executable can decide whether it's been invoked from a shell

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I have now checked ReactOS' code: if you load an exe that is not the main executable then the entry point won't be called at all. So it seems that you can load such executables and call functions from them, but in the case of FPC you might be screwed (or at least very

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
as a program, i.e. can be invoked in such a way as to test its own basic functionality. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] OT: Cute little toy program

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/MartianTime.zip Is that the time zone on Earth or on Mars? :-) There was discussion recently on getting uncorrected UTC time which concluded that it was much easier on unix than on Windows, in practice I usually delegate as much as possible to a backend database. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Juha Manninen wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Couldn't this be specified as the Launching application parameter? Actually it is defined in Run - Run Parameters ... - Host application I was thinking about the case where some

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of stuff defined by the architecture and stuff changing every nSec. I'm no registry fan, but at least it tries to keep things separate. I wonder whether POSIX has anything instructive to say about this sort of thing? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above

Re: [Lazarus] Running a library

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Juha Manninen wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: No, I was wondering about the extent to which a library could be defined such that it was also runnable as a program. A library cannot be run alone. However there 2 kinds

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
) That (at least in the case of Linux) the /proc filesystem is available. I think that it's probably more portable to go straight to the values available in /proc, if you can't read them then it's unlikely that ps would show you much more. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
that there's a POSIX-compliant capabilities library on top of the Linux/Solaris/etc. kernel. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 13/09/12 08:42, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: i) That the ps binary is available. So be fair, I don't think I have ever come across a Linux distro that doesn't include the ps binary as standard. And I have used Linux since 1996. Even *BSD and *Solaris include the ps

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
', mtError, [mbOK], 0); I guess that solution 2 is the best as it asks immediately the kernel. I agree. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 13/09/12 10:08, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Yes, but the ps parameters vary. I'm using this stuff in my FPC build script on Linux and Solaris. Yes, they vary between Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, but as far as I know, the do not vary between Linux distros

Re: [Lazarus] error compile Lazarus svn

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
graph, tracking e.g. which revisions of Lazarus trunk are known to compile and work with which revisions of FPC 2.x.1? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Island_of_Stability.svg -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
? [Sigh] /proc is a special filesystem which the kernel uses to expose information about each process. Apart from the fact that it is mounted into the standard filesystem namespace, it has absolutely nothing to do with a physical disc. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Kaj Mikkelsen wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Wrong. I've got a terminal session connected to a Solaris 10 system on my desk at the moment (because I'm trying to debug some LOM issues), and /proc is fine. However, it's worth remembering that non-Linux implementations tend to have less

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Am 2012-09-13 17:33, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: [Sigh] /proc is a special filesystem which the kernel uses to expose information about each process. Apart from the fact that it is mounted into the standard filesystem namespace, it has absolutely nothing to do

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to curiosities like Helios. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Process ID

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marco van de Voort wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:08:19AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: So be fair, I don't think I have ever come across a Linux distro that doesn't include the ps binary as standard. And I have used Linux since 1996. Even *BSD and *Solaris include the ps binary

Re: [Lazarus] error compile Lazarus svn

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
event, having to know exactly what revision of FPC to use for/with Lazarus is a problem, and the potential of having (temporarily) broken Lazarus revisions is a bigger one. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] error compile Lazarus svn

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:39:08 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Plus others in fpc-devel. What we need is a I've just committed something to svn trunk which breaks it for 2.6.x, normal service will be resumed shortly button. That would

Re: [Lazarus] error compile Lazarus svn

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, normal service will be resumed shortly button. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Passing a section of an array to a function.

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. :-) Wasn't there something in PL/1 that allowed a skewed slice of a 2-D array to be passed as a 1-D parameter? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Compiler Options: Apply conventions

2012-09-08 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
patspiper wrote: What exactly is Compiler Options: Apply conventions? It is not documented in http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Compiler_Options. Affects things like e.g. 'lib' being applied as a prefix to a unix shared library. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co

Re: [Lazarus] What tells me the M in the version Number? Lazarus 1.1 r38545M FPC 2.6.0 i386-linux-gtk 2

2012-09-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
the facility was added for Lazarus to store desktop settings in a .lps file rather than the .lpi file. The .lps file shouldn't (as I understand it) be in svn. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] What is aarre?

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
only wonder how people will pronounce it. Here 'R' pronounces like in Spanish (caRamba) and 'RR' is double as strong. The name can be changed if people don't like it. English has no problem with that, in fact it explains Long John Silver's Aarre, Jim lad :-) -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Proprietary vs Open Source mentality

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

[Lazarus] RAD tools for Solaris

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
/Lazarus_on_Solaris . -8- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.general/9206 I could do with revisiting the Wiki page now that we're at 2.6.0 + 1.0, but at the moment time does not permit that. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those

Re: [Lazarus] Reporting help not found problems

2012-08-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
page. The subject was how to report help problems. So I fail to grab the sense of this comment. Besides which, the original query was about 'result' which is definitely not a basic type, and we've already seen it causing a less-experienced user problems. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
to allow for using these lStrings with the syntax we know for String and additionally allow for Object-Syntax for these strings. Which was what I was assuming in my What is a string query in fpc-devel. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

Re: [Lazarus] What happened with make LCL_PLATFORM?

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
it been like this? Does it hurt when you cough? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] What happened with make LCL_PLATFORM?

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of the files to be deleted in one of the other mailing lists a few days ago, but I can't easily find it. In general I just delete the relevant directory from (e.g.) /usr/local/lib/fpc, and then look for any dangling symlinks in (e.g.) /usr/local/bin and check (e.g.) /etc/fpc.cfg. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd

Re: [Lazarus] What happened with make LCL_PLATFORM?

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Krzysztof wrote: Hmm seems that my last post to this discussion does not reached. So after reinstall FPC, everything works fine Trunk definitely needs a recent 2.7.1. RC1 and RC2 OK on 2.6.0 (i.e. current stable FPC) as expected. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] What happened with make LCL_PLATFORM?

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, it's 2.6.10: this has been a property of version control systems since the days of yore. For even murkier history, see http://www.udanax.com/green/febe/tumblers.html -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers

Re: [Lazarus] Delphi post-XE3 roadmap

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a lot of attack from to-be-previous-Delphi-users (assuming they finally look at Lazarus/FPC instead of moving to other dev platforms). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus IDE v0.5 - a blast from the past

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
a glass /in/ /absentia/ to the developers of some of the predecessor and constituent projects including Sybil and Megido, and also to the Borland pioneers of distant memory as they hauled their wagons over the passes and towards the promised land of Scotts Valley. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 Release

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias mentions) for information. But something custom-written for today is probably needed too. Yes, urgently. Starting off with a *concise* URL for Mattias's announcement, without any forum comments or whatever tacked on. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

2012-08-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
of familiarity with the guts. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http

Re: [Lazarus] Policy regarding HTML messages

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
what's relevant. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] LHelp doesn't scroll

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
work as expected). -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

[Lazarus] Console output from RC1 and RC2 from svn

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
When starting Lazarus from a shell on Linux (x86 etc.) or Solaris, I'm still seeing a large amount of console output. Is this an intended feature, or is there a build-time option I should be using to reduce the verbosity? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions

Re: [Lazarus] Policy regarding HTML messages

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
with it. Recently I switched to a decent email client though - Gmail with it's flat conversation view design is very annoying too. I admit that I was wondering if you'd changed. I'm seeing far less of the everything jammed onto a single line messages than I used to. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl

Re: [Lazarus] Console output from RC1 and RC2 from svn

2012-08-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:57:57 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: When starting Lazarus from a shell on Linux (x86 etc.) or Solaris, I'm still seeing a large amount of console output. Is this an intended feature, or is there a build-time

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 from svn, various platforms

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Apologies in advance: these are rather stream-of-consciousness and might be a couple of days out of date due to the slowness of some of my development systems. Generally based on 38257 with FPC 2.6.0. I've expressed various niggles with lhelp in another thread and won't

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 from svn, various platforms

2012-08-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 24-8-2012 13:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've only just picked up that building LCL documentation fails on big-endian systems: SPARC Linux/Solaris and PPC Linux. It leaves a zero-length .chm. I don't yet have any useful exception info

[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 on x86-64 Solaris

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ID ... unknown warning message every few hours. I don't think the system's thrashing, but I don't know Solaris well enough to get detailed info. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues

[Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
this on x86 or ARM (Linux, not testing Windows). Seeing it on PPC but not ARM suggests that it's an endianness rather than alignment issue. I'm not yet able to test on SPARC Solaris due to the slowness of fpdoc on that combination. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

Re: [Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:59:26 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: On Linux running on either SPARC or PPC, trying to invoke context-sensitive help (i.e. F1 key over a keyword) fails with a dialogue e.g. Unknown error showing /forms

Re: [Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:59:26 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: On Linux running on either SPARC or PPC, trying to invoke context-sensitive help (i.e. F1 key over a keyword) fails with a dialogue e.g. Unknown error

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 on x86-64 Solaris

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: If anybody has access to an x86-64 Solaris system, please could they do a test build of Lazarus and then test the documentation build using make chmdocs etc. On SPARC Solaris 10, Lazarus builds promptly. However the documentation build has been running for almost

Re: [Lazarus] IDE invocation of lhelp, probable endianness issue

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:40:22 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:59:26 + Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: On Linux running on either SPARC or PPC, trying to invoke

[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.0 RC1 from svn, various platforms

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
10: build of Lazarus+LCL OK, subsequent operation OK. Build of documentation was unreasonably slow (more than two days). Invoking context-sensitive help raises an exception in lhelp but not in the IDE. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's

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