Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
I found no binary for FreeBSD on your homepage, However I found this gpc-2.0_1 A free 32-bit Pascal compiler Long description | Sources | Main Web Site Maintained by: antonz@library.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua Requires: autoconf213-2.13.000227, gcc-2.8.1, gettext-0.10.35, gmake-3.79.1, m4-1.4_1
under http://www.freebsd.org/ports/lang.html
And this is prepared for freeBSD,
gpc version 19990118, is my version, and I downloaded ist quite recently, So I have no reason to believe that my version is newer than the FreeBSD prepared port ?
Probably not. However, you can find the current sources as a tar.gz archive and on the CVS server. If you want to follow the latest changes (such as the patches occasionally posted here), you will need the most current sources. Alternatively you can wait for the next release which will incorporate these changes. Our sources are currently updated once in a few weeks. When FreeBSD ports are updated, I don't know.
My problem is comparing gpc version 19990118 with gpc-2.0_1. Let me guess ?
Is 19990118 similar to year = 1999 and version 0118 = 1.1_8 after disregarding the Most Significant Bit ?
Much simpler: 1999-01-18 = 18 Jan 1999.
And can I compare gpc-2.0_1 as the current release and my 1.1_8 as not quite up to date ?
I don't know who made up the version 2.0_1. Perhaps a numbering used by the FreeBSD ports. 2.0 was the last "official" GPC release (many years ago, 1996 or so). 2.1 will be the next one, coming soon. In the meantime, we just use dates.
under this url ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current/binary/
I would have expected to find some binary for FreeBSD,
After the release of 2.1, we'll try to get binaries there for as many systems as possible.
Or at least a README.FreeBSD
Why? AFAIK, there's nothing special WRT FreeBSD, compared to other Un*x systems. Compiling from the sources should work just the same.
Frank