Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:17:04 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any pascal-source programs in the ports tree? Message-ID: <CAOgwaMsRifCGKjvObe5Kp4yxO9E7JFbQg5OD5dDDW0ceAxhheQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150313005804.L42290@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20150313005804.L42290@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know of any ports written IN freepascal (fpc)? I've spent > some time trolling through ports (other than fpc itself) that mention > 'pascal' anywhere, but so far have found nothing with pascal sources. > > I hope to publish two going on three programs (one of them pretty big) > in the coming months, written largely in ol' Turbo Pascal dialect and > compiled with fpc 2.6, via the fp IDE. These are console-mode programs, > essentially a series of astronomical calculations leading to generation > of RIFF wave audio files. That all works without drama. > > Build dependency would require installing (relevant bits of) fpc and > coming up with a sane Makefile etc for which I'd need lots of guidance, > without immersing myself too deeply in the deep and wide ports world, so > I was hoping to find another port for a monkey-see monkey-do template. > > If making a port isn't pretty straightforward I'm not too fussed; I have > little extra time so will probably just publish sources and i386 & amd64 > binaries (maybe for linux too) and text docs for the few people who may > be interested, but a port might be a good way to give something back. > > Anyone suggesting p2c will be politely ignored :) > > cheers, Ian (please cc me; I'm subscribed to questions-digest) > _______________________________________________ > > The ports tree is full of fpc-* ( fpc parts and units are separately prepared as packages ) and Lazarus and its some parts . Therefore , you may imitate these ports by using them as samples . In http://www.freshports.org/ search fpc lazarus and see found parts for how they can be build from the sources . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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