[fpc-pascal]How to use Linux libraries?

[James Mills]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:18:48PM +0200, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> Hello, James!
> 
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, James Mills wrote:
> | I could write you up a set of such procedures or classes to do this,
> | however I'm starting back at uni. New semester :)
> 
> Good success at Uni! What are you studying?

Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering at Griffith University
(Australia, QLD)

> 
> 
> | Anyway, I'm sure there are others here on this mailing list that could
> | do the same.
> Possibly, yes. But you are the _first_ one who answered, so the number of
> people still seems to be very small... ;-)
> 
> 
> | Question: Why can't you do it yourself ? It isn't that hard to grab the
> | specs of the JPEG image format and learn it and write your own data
> | structures to contain the jpeg image data, decode it into pixel arrays...
> | It's all there in the specs :)
> 
> Something about me: I started programming in Pascal roughly 15 years ago, on
> CP/M (Z80 CPU, 4MB RAM, 10MB HDD,...), later I changed to DOS with finally
> Borland Pascal, but I kept consequently away from Windoze programming.
> Finally I changed to Linux, which is more what I like DOS, than Windoze...
> 
> But all this years I never wrote one line in assembly language, nor was there
> any need for me to include external code. I did everything in plain Pascal
> language, without any hacking and tweaking, which was perfect for writing all
> this userspecific software.
> 
> So my primary problem is that I never got experience about how to solve such
> things like linking to external libraries. Of course, I could sit down and
> hope to find it out by myself with trial & error, but this is extremely
> inefficient and time consuming. Also success will be very low in this case.
> Another thing is: Why should I start re-inventing the wheel and writing my own
> JPEG/TIFF/.../units from scratch, when there exist a lot of ready made
> libraries? Isn't it the purpose of libraries to do exactly this?
> 
> 
> So I am looking for some help in form of _working_ samples which I can analyze
> and try to understand. It will also be very helpful if there would be somebody
> who could "teach" me a little bit and guide me to my first success.

As you'll read in other posts just recently there are jpeg units for
pascal that do this. I probably have some myself that I'm unaware of :)

cheers
James

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> 
> mfg
> 
>   Ing. Rainer Hantsch
> 
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