[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Vern]

Travis,

There is a discussion in the fpc archives 2014 I believe about using Geany.

I have been using Geany for over 10 years with complex GUI programs ... 
but you must use a file located in the directory where the executable is 
linked.

... in this case extrafps.cfg

... and reference the file extrafpc.cfg  in Geany


BTW : The guys documenting FPC have never bothered to describe this in 
any documentation that I can find.

Vern

On 2024-11-17 12:48, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
> On 11/17/2024 12:57 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal:
>> FPC and Lazarus are as unified as is sensible. We keep them different 
>> by *choice* so that users don't think that they *have* to choose 
>> Lazarus if they don't want to.
>>
> But the problem is (as I've repeatedly stated on this list) is that if 
> one doesn't use lazarus for their IDE, then building anything other 
> than basic command line programs is nearly impossible.  I've asked 
> (multiple times) on this list for samples of doing various things with 
> FPC that lazarus does with ease, (such as GUI, and networking), 
> without using lazarus, and each and every time, the silence has been 
> deafening.
>
> I've never once received any information on doing these kinds of 
> things without Lazarus.  Sure, there's a (very) few examples of using 
> tcp/ip networking with the default FPC install, but those examples are 
> about as simplistic as it's possible to get, which actually shows next 
> to nothing about such capabilities.  aAnd, I've *never* seen any 
> samples of how to build a GUI app just by using the command line 
> compiler.  I've done searches on google, and asked on this list, and 
> everything I can turn up shows nothing as relates to building an FPC 
> app with a GUI w/o using some IDE or other.(mostly lazarus), so if you 
> could kindly point me to such resources, I'd love to see them
>
> Typically when I ask such questions on this list, I get either no 
> response at all, or I get snarky ones that contribute nothing to the 
> discussion.  (mostly from yourself).
>
> This is why I almost never use FPC for program development, unless 
> it's a cross platform application that can run from the command line, 
> there's just no point in doing otherwisesince I don't use an IDE of 
> any kind.
>
> I use powerbasic when GUI is required on windows, and java when GUI is 
> required on other platforms.
>
> I'd love to use FPC, since it otherwise checks all the boxes, cross 
> platform, and capable of networking, and GUI programming, but I simply 
> can't, because I can't find any examples of such for someone who 
> doesn't use Lazarus.
>
>
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