On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 16:56:26 +0200 (CEST), Daniel de Kok wrote:
>>Well. We have dead project. Isn't it?
>I guess when everybody was waiting for Allen Mertner's (VPascal) reaction the
>discussion stopped (I haven't been actively reading all messages). It seems he is not
>really into opensourcing Virtual Pascal and VPascal's future stays unclear, so that
>leaves us with FreePascal or GNU Pascal as currently usable opensource Pascal
>compilers for OS/2 (, Windows and Linux). It would be a shame if this project dies,
>especially because it is not a project with zero lines of code, but large parts of
>already-written opensource RAD code...
Ok. Lets talk about Open Source Pascal compilers. We have Free Pascal (FPC) and GNU
Pascal (GPC). Both compilers require OS/2 API definetion. In FPC this is very
easy (of couse, via EMXWRAP for 16bit calls) by classic Borland pascal's notation. In
GPC we can use gcc c headers and make wrappers (usual way for gpc). FPC is
Borland standard only. GPC supports ANSI Pascal, Extended pascal, Borland Pascal, GNU
Pascal and other standards.
I tries compile GPC 2.1 RC #3 for OS/2 on top of pgcc 2.95.3. In most cases all works
fine (was someproblems with Random function and file operations).
So, if we want _only_ borland/delphi pascal like RAD, then FPC seems to be good choice.
If we want also support other languages/standards, then gpc must be a choice.
IMHO, of couse.
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