[fpc-pascal] xforms

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Montag, den 15.09.2008, 11:08 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi Gaetano,
> 
> > i am a newbie and tryng unsuccesfully to compile and run xforms example
> > getting only this message:
> > ....
> >        Compiling pushme.pp
> >        Linking ./pushme
> >        /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lforms
> >        pushme.pp(16,1) Error: Error while linking
> >        pushme.pp(16,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> >        Fatal: Compilation aborted
> >        make: *** [pushme] Error 1
> 
> After reading your email, I tried that same example and also couldn't
> manage to link it either. I didn't actually know "xforms" links to
> FLTK toolkit — I thought there was a toolkit called XForms. :-)

You are right, FLTK is a different toolkit. There actually is a toolkit
called XForms:

http://bloch.phys.uwm.edu/xforms
http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms

I didn't try the links, but I have been using XForms long ago.

HTH,
Marc