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Freepascal 3.2.0 release candidate (Announce)

posted by marcov, 03.04.2020, 14:53

> OK, tried this release and my impressions are rather positive. (I will
> speak about GO32V2 version only)
>
> + Installer (INSTALL.EXE) works
> + For most packages it needs LFN driver. In the beginning of the
> instalation it warns about it. Some packages is anyway possible to properly
> install even without LFNs and even those where they are supposed to be
> really required is possible to force manualy the installer to install.
> It is fair behaviour.
Tomas was looking into workarounds.

> - Unfortunately the LFNs are reported as requierred even for the very basic
> packages like basic GNU tools or the Turbo pascal compatible units.
> It would be much better to be SFN compatible for this minimal DOS set.
> But OK, I understand that FPC in targeted primary for the modern platforms
> and to keep such level of DOS compatibility would be difficult.
> Anyway - for us, DOS entusiasists is still possible the create a more DOS
> friendly package of FPC.
Yes, the relevant units are lfn and in the base libraries. The best you can do is delete them from a LFN machine.

> - Even other complication with the LFN requirement is the location of the
> RTL units. They are in the LFN directories.
> I recommend to manulaly edit the FPC.CFG and FP.CFG files and replace the
> LFN paths to their SFN equivalents. After this correction will the compiler
> again work even in the non-LFN environment.
This is new for me. Does it create i386-go32v2 paths somewhere instead of "go32v2"?

> - As Rugxulo mentioned, the IDEDOS.ZIP package is corrupted. But
> surprisingly it can be cured by tool PKZIPFIX. I did it and uploaded the
> fixed version here:
> http://laaca.sweb.cz/idedos.zip
It is intact on FTP. unzip -t yields no errors.

I put it on http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/idedos.zip (215MB), and tested it again with *nix infozip, and it tests ok, also after transfer.

> + Huge pleasant surprise is the perfectly working IDE (the FP.EXE file)
> hidden in the above mentioned IDEDOS.ZIP file.
The big one? I assume, not the uidedos one?

> After many years and after many releases it finally works out of the box
> even with fully working integrated debugger. (but yes, here is still the
> bug with not working output screen saving in VESA modes)
> And the debugger is based on the very new GDB 7.7.1
I have been misinformed by the maintainer then. He said it contained no gdb in the IDE.

> - I can confirm the crash with the bundled external GDB.EXE file. It is not
> the duty of the FPC team because it is a external utility.

It this case, maybe. Because the dos packager also is a GDB committer :-) (though afaik not for dos related issues and not for packaging/releasing)

> Maybe people
> from the
> DJGPP
> group could help there.
> Or you can use this slightly older GDB 7.2
> http://laaca.sweb.cz/gdb.exe
Afaik the dos/gdb guy is still working on it.

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