[fpc-pascal] Bindings for FLTK - testers needed
Dibo
dibo20 at wp.pl
Mon Jun 22 10:13:32 CEST 2026
Hi,
I spend few evenings creating bindings for CFLTK / FLTK. It is not only
call H2Pas but made own converter tool which convert macros as flatten C
methods and do a lot of stuff.
Description: FLTK is very lightweight multiplatform GUI written in C++.
It doesn't use Qt / GTK / WinCtrls in backend but pure X11 / GDI. It is
similar to our fpGUI / MSEGUI for Free Pascal.
Link to repo: https://github.com/dibok/PasFLTK
I need some testers for windows and macos because I'm not able do it by
my self for now.
I have also question for FPC guru here. Please see section "Other static
linking options". I have trouble there. Is there correct way to link *.a
libs (even written in C++) so there is no need to deploy libcfltk.so /
libfltk.so?
In short. Structure looks like that:
FPC headers -> cfltk lib (C wrapper) -> fltk lib (C++)
I used GDB to debug these libs and noticed that the main problem which
cause this SIGSEGV is related to some kind different initialization
order of C++ classes. For example:
Class A {
public:
*char get_filesystem_label();
}
Class B {
static const *char somelabel = A::get_filesystem_label();
}
Demo is running but has SIGSEGV in some particular places. In FPC demo,
seems like C++ class B is initializated first before A so const
somelabel contain empty value (NULL in fact). But the same demo written
in C works fine. Even ldd command shows that both my demo and C demo has
linked the same libs in the same order. I didn't debug deeper but I
think that method in class A is using some X11 routine, so maybe FPC
demo should call some init from linked X11 first? But C demo doesn't
call anything like that. I have also tried compiler option
--whole-archive with no result. I looked at other bindings for FLTK and
for example Rust is generating one single small executable without
needing libcfltk.so / libfltk.so so it is probably linking *.a libs. It
would be great if FPC could do that too.
Regards
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