Development status & GNU Pascal on QNX

[Waldek Hebisch]

Michael Müller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are developing a console application under Delphi. The main task is
> to run it on Windows. But in some situations we need to run it on the
> realtime OS QNX. For this we currently use FreePascal. But several
> years ago (when they switched to version 2.x) the removed the QNX
> support but FPC 1.0.x lacks many interesting features like dynamic
> arrays.
> 
> Searching for alternatives we found GNU Pascal. But going through the
> project pages I'm a little bit confused about the current development
> status. The download page which offers alpha test versions shows a
> version that is nearly one year old. The community is still active and
> from browsing through the mail archive I found some up-to-date but
> personal releases. So my main question is what the development status
> of GNU Pascal is. Before we would switch to it which would need some
> changes in the code I would like to know if the work on GNU Pascal is
> coordinated.
> 

Yes, the work is coordinated.

> Additionally I thought that GNU Pascal is bundled with GNU C so that
> with every GNU C release there is a GNU Pascal release. But this seems
> to be a big misunderstanding from my side. Only Fortan and Java seems
> to be bundled.
> 

Releases of GNU C and GNU Pascal are independent.  Given release of GPC
is supposed to work with a few releases of GNU C (for example, current
relase works best with gcc-3.4.4 or gcc-3.4.5, but many eariler GNU C
releases are also supported).  Binary distributors can bundle GPC with
GCC, but source distributions are independent.

> And related to our real need: Does anybody here use GNU Pascal on QNX?
> 

I am not aware of anybody. Which probably means that to get GNU Pascal
running you need to do some work. 

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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