[fpc-devel]Status of the BeOS port?

Florian Klaempfl Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de
Thu Oct 17 12:11:13 CEST 2002


At 23:50 16.10.2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hello all,
>
>I am one of the BePascal developper.
> >
> >What is the status of the BeOS port? I have not found any snaphot for
>this
> >platform. Is 1.0.6 the last version available?
>
>The BeOS port is available and works quite well. You can download it at
>http://www.freepascal.org/down-beos.html.
>But you can only develop console applications.
>
> >
> >Also, there is the BePascal project at Sourceforge,
> >http://befpc.sourceforge.net . Which is the relation of this project
>with the
> >official FPC team?
>
>There is no official relation between the two project :

Though I would prefer a closer relation :) it could improve
the BeOS port a lot because the BeOS knowledge in the current
core team is little. Another nice thing would be a regulary
BeOS snapshot generation ...

>  - The FPC team is working on the compiler.
>  - The befpc team is working on a pascal library : BePascal. This
>library will enable the developpement of GUI applications. All the C++
>API of BeOS will be available from FPC through a C/C++ shared object.





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