[fpc-pascal] Compiling JCL

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Juha Manninen said:
> How to compile and build jcl?
> Should I try an older version?
> Now I have the latest public version jcl-2.01.3449-linux.
> I tried to compile the jcl package and got the same ULARGE_INTEGER error.
> Then I commented out the {$IFNDEF FPC} in JclBase.pas to let ULARGE_INTEGER be 
> defined.
> Then I get more errors, like
>   Error: Identifier not found "MultiByteToWideChar"
>   Error: Identifier not found "MB_PRECOMPOSED"
> all related to Windows stuff.
> 
> What to do? Is this the end of my Lazarus / FPC porting?

The JCL is not very portable, and worse, non-portable and portable parts are
not very well separated. They have half of the units depending on units that
try to read the borland debug format etc.