[fpc-pascal] FPC + Haiku

[Olivier Coursière]

Hi,

On 28/01/2011 13:41, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Matt Emson said:
>>> Anybody here using FPC on Haiku?  If so, how well does it work compared
>>> to under Windows or Linux?
Yes, me ! It should work well. But, as you can imagine, there is a lot 
less testers under Haiku. So, bugs might remains here and there. Feel 
free to submit bugs or patchs in the bug tracker.
>> It used to work well enough under BeOS R5, but there was always an issue
>> with the C++ nature of the Be API. Haiku seems to have a Qt port, so you
>> might get further with it. I seem to recall Lazarus can target Qt, right?
> Afaik Lazarus runs on Haiku due to the work of mostly Olivier Coursiere.
> (it was GTK2 based iirc).
Qt based in fact ;-) But, yes, Lazarus runs quite well. Integrated 
debugging does not work. I have not yet look at this problem (it might 
work one day as it already works in the textmode IDE). There is a few 
problems in the designer when dragging components (probably some bugs in 
Haiku's Qt port).
> The number of haiku patches is slow, but every FPC release contains a
> couple.
Yes, i try to compile freepascal on a regular basis under Haiku and 
submit patchs when needed or when i found something. But any help is 
welcome ;-)

Regards,
Olivier