[fpc-devel] 'debugserverintf' fails to compile under FPC 2.4.0-rc1 and FPC 2.5.1

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> 2009/12/8 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>
>> No, it uses the simpleipc unit.
>>
>> There was an old version of the debugintf/server units, but they should no
>> longer be used; I think you're using the old versions.
>
> I was looking at the GTK1 GUI debugserver application, and wanted to implement
> a fpGUI version of that server. The code I was looking at is located at:
>
>   <fpc_src>/utils/debugsvr/debugintf.pp
>   <fpc_src>/utils/debugsvr/debugserverintf.pp
>   <fpc_src>/utils/debugsvr/gtk/*
>
> So are you saying that all debug server applications like the Lazarus
> one, GTK1 (included with FPC and Console (also included with FPC)
> should rather use the 'simpleipc' unit to communicate?
>
> So what is the use of the 'debugserverintf' unit, or is that unit
> actually deprecated?
>
>
>> All units should be in fcl-process and fcl-base, I think ?
>
> 'simpleipc' is located in fcl-process.
>
>
> Um, I just noticed there are two units called dbugintf.pp in FPC source...
>
>  packages/fcl-process/dbugintf.pp
> and
>  utils/debugsvr/debugintf.pp
>
>
> Shouldn't one of them be deleted? The 'utils/debugsvr/*' code looks
> older and is not based on SimpleIPC, so maybe that should be deleted
> to avoid further confusion?

Yes, I will do so.

Michael.