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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 29, 2024 at 8:11:11 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm having some difficulty. When I follow the instructions from Install.txt I get this:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif">This is very much on topic. FPC has no build system so what do you do when you encounter a project like this without clear building?</font> <span style="font-family:ui-sans-serif,sans-serif">I want to try this too but I have no idea what to do with it. It’s just a bunch of directories and some text files not about building.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:ui-sans-serif,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif">Does it even run on macOS? I built the one program file I found (</font>fpmake.pas) but running that crashes. Looks like a cool project but I don’t have time for any more than this.</div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="ui-sans-serif, sans-serif">If there’s anything that would kill a compiler more it would have to be “new user can’t build projects”. Even for me I will simply ignore projects because I don’t want to spend 30 minutes digging around source code and asking questions on mail lists.</font></div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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