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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 30/11/2024 a las 09:53, Hairy Pixels
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 30, 2024 at 3:11:10 PM,
Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <<a
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type="cite"> This is very much on topic. FPC has no build
system<br>
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Huh ? Of course it does, it has 2. fpcmake (older) and fpmake.<br>
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Please don't spread incorrect information.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">sorry but it’s not really part of the compiler,
just something that generates commands it feeds to the compile
right?. aren’t new compilers doing away with this design and
integrating the whole setup? Having the build system and the
compiler as two different programs is the root of so much
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I really don't understand all this fuss.<br>
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A language is a language, a compiler is a compiler, and then there
is the toolchain and the whole ecosystem, the libraries etc. There a
fuzzy border between a compiler and its standard toolchain (let' it
be standard, or a de facto), but FPC has what you need.<br>
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The problem with "how to get new users" is not that it is very
complex Freepascal. FPC does everything if you want to taste the
language. <br>
I've compiled some programs with just an editor and the old ppc386,
and worked fine.<br>
But nowadays I use an IDE, it is much more convenient. As soon as a
project becomes a little complex, uses libraries etc, no have an
easy way to gather everything is a suicide. An IDE that helps you
with the parameters of thousands of functions is a necessity... in
Freepacal or any language.<br>
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(try to write a Java application just using Oracle java download)<br>
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Saludos
Santi</pre>
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