Obtaining Free Pascal library units and IDE not just compiler

[in_the_void35]

Hello Forum,

Does pkgsrc include packages that simplifies all installation of the Free Pascal compiler, IDE and FCL units? Usually installing Lazarus on Linux takes care of all of this, but it installs Lazarus under X-Windows.
I gave this up on OpenBSD. There wasn't any documentation (only to FreeBSD) in the online Lazarus or FP manuals. It seems you have to replicate the directory structure of where those FCL units are on Linux or FreeBSD and copy them to OpenBSD. Then you have to point them to the compiler or set them up in the IDE. I'm not entirely sure how to do this. But I do have a computer IQ of 165 out of 200 so I'm pretty cluey.

Thankyou,
Craig

[kamil]

Lazarus is at the moment absent in pkgsrc, I will have a look whether it's simply doable without need for knowing Pascal

[darktrym]

I can't even find freepascal in pkgsrc and some posts on the mailing list say there are issues.

[in_the_void35]

Originally Posted by darktrym

I can't even find freepascal in pkgsrc and some posts on the mailing list say there are issues.

The compiler could be under the NetBSD equivalent of OpenBSD's lang/fpc. I had that installed under Geany in OpenBSD, but there were no units.

[darktrym]

Nope, no FreePascal in Pkgsrc only GPC.

[in_the_void35]

GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC) will be fine.
Do I need to install gmake and gcc on vanilla NetBSD 7.0 first?

Will GPC (the non-minimal installation in pkgsrc) install all of the tools it describes on its website?

Once I install all of the libraries mentioned on the GPC website through pkgsrc, would they link up with the compiler in Geany when you create a .pas file? Do I just need to replace fpc in the build options with the path to gpc?

[kamil]

I've successfully installed Linux version and built a hello world example with fpc on NetBSD:

program HelloWorld;
uses crt;

(* Here the main program block starts *)
begin
writeln('Hello, World!');
readkey;
end.

I prepared a suse 13.1 package, generated object file, manually fixed paths in the result file for a linker and it worked.

If someone will need it, I will help with NetBSD and pkgsrc, I don't know Pascal.


To get to my point:
1. Locally alter emulators/suse131_linux/Makefile.common

Index: suse131_linux/Makefile.common
================================================== =================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/emulators/suse131_linux/Makefile.common,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 Makefile.common
--- suse131_linux/Makefile.common 10 Mar 2015 01:42:13 -0000 1.13
+++ suse131_linux/Makefile.common 17 Oct 2015 13:35:48 -0000
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@

_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR= distribution/${SUSE_VERSION}/repo/oss/suse/
_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR_UPD= update/${SUSE_VERSION}/
+_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR_EDU= repositories/Education/openSUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}/

MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}= \
http://download.opensuse.org/${_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR}
@@ -80,6 +81,9 @@
MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}_UPD= \
http://download.opensuse.org/${_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR_UPD}

+MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}_EDU= \
+ http://download.opensuse.org/${_SUSE_FTP_SUBDIR_EDU}
+
MASTER_SITES?= ${MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}}/${SUSE_ARCH}/
DIST_SUBDIR?= suse${SUSE_VERSION:S/.//}

@@ -132,10 +136,10 @@
${MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}}${distfile:E}/
. endfor
.endif
-.if defined(RPMUPDPKGS) && !empty(RPMUPDPKGS)
-. for distfile in ${RPMUPDPKGS}
+.if defined(RPMEDUPKGS) && !empty(RPMEDUPKGS)
+. for distfile in ${RPMEDUPKGS}
DISTFILES+= ${distfile}.rpm
SITES.${distfile:T:S/=/--/}.rpm?= \
- ${MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}_UPD}${distfile: E}/
+ ${MASTER_SITE_SUSE_${SUSE_VERSION}_EDU}${distfile: E}/
. endfor
.endif

2. Get pkgsrc-wip (https://pkgsrc.org/wip for details)

3. Install wip/suse131_fpc

make install

4. Add to your PATH suse compat packages

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/

5. Compile the test example

$ fpc -s test.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.4 [2014/05/07] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2014 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling test.pas
Closing script ppas.sh
8 lines compiled, 0.1 sec

6. Fix linker paths

sed -i 's!/usr/lib64/!/usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/lib64/!' link.res

7. Link sources

$ ./ppas.sh
Linking test
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?

8. Run

$ ./test
Hello, World!
<enter pressed>
$

It's a good start for bootstrapping a native fpc NetBSD version.

[kamil]

For gpc, just install pkgin and:

pkgin install gpc

It will handle the dependencies.

[kamil]

To browse the file, please check http://pkgsrc.se/lang/gpc and check cvsweb -> PLIST and PLIST.netbsd

[in_the_void35]

Thank you, I will check out your hard work. But I will probably try GPC first, since that is the most plausible.

[kamil]

Thank you, I saw that people want to get some Pascal software on NetBSD, like http://sourceforge.net/p/transgui

Working on it is highly appreciated!

[darktrym]

Is there a release of the new fpc 3.0 or lazarus in view? Unfortunateley i work for a company which uses products made by Delphi 3, 5 and XE7(and some ASP.NET projects). On sourceforge/fpc there are NetBSD binaries for at least 2.64 but no entry in pkgsrc.

[kamil]

Hi, I will have a look