[fpc-pascal] Re: How to include Carbon.h?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 19 apr 2007, at 12:57, Milan Marusinec wrote:

> BlueCat wrote:
>> Hello, Pascal folks,
>> I'm using FPC 2.0.4 on MacOSX 1.4.9 PPC and trying to write a  
>> Pascal library
>> that is externally called from REALbasic (Rb).  But Rb needs  
>> Carbon.h header
>> included in dylibs which are called by Rb programs.
>
> To include Carbon.pas in your fpc-mac os X project you need
> additional libraries, which are not a part of the Free Pascal on mac.
> They are the Universal Pascal Interfaces (UPI), which are a part of  
> the
> Apple Universal Interfaces, which can be downloaded at:
> ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/ 
> UniversalInterfaces3.4.2.dmg

This is incorrect. That version is very outdated and contains several  
errors. As of 2.0.4, FPC contains the common Mac OS interfaces for  
FPC, GPC and MW, which contain many more Pascal headers than what  
Apple distributes and also many bug fixes.


Jonas