The Sinclair QL Forum

My excuse for my part in this is that this discussion is tangential to the main topic: namely how might FPC (etc) look if it werent constrained by the olde 68008? Its sometimes hard to know when to split off. You mean generated code wise? Well, FPC on the m68k is mainly a 68020 compiler, and it was...

The debugger is a separate component I wrote as a Windows DLL and the UI uses Win32 API calls. It didn't seem worth porting it as I don't know of anybody other than me using it. I recently registered Q-emuLator for macOS, I'm working on Free Pascal, and I'd love to have any sort of debugger in it o...

Norman, the FPC_patch.8.zip you attached only contains a 0 bytes file. Is this intentional?

@NormanDunbar
I merged your sysutils patch in r49306. Good job.

The patch you provided also contains the mt_inf() signature change, which I still ignored, for the reasons I explained earlier.

Everything built with only the usual warning messages.

So, I flipped the switch, and now, and after r49296, FPC now indeed needs vlink 0.16h. Additionally, I fixed the linker warning in r49295.

In the process of rebuilding the cross compiler/rtl/ql units now.

Sorry, that was a bit premature, I haven't changed anything in FPC yet, precisely to give people time to update their vlink. I will do it in the next few days. Just for clarification.

More heads up: yesterday Frank Wille released vlink 0.16h which contains the QL target, Free Pascal will need at least this version real soon now , so please update your vlink builds. I have already updated the QL page on the Free Pascal wiki to signal this version or newer is now required. Probably...

In case anyone is thinking of having a bash at writing the SYSUTILS.PP functions (in rtl/sinclairql) then I'm already in there messing about. :D I've added code to make the following work, hopefully, and I'll be testing shortly: (...) Once tested, I'll post a patch file, as usual. Sounds great. The...

Oh, and one slightly offtopic news I forgot, whoever is interested to work on VBCC for the QL, I mentioned this to Frank Wille and they should contact him directly. He said to me that access to vclib source is possible for serious contenders. It just needs a startup code (feel free to reuse my code ...

Uh, that's a lot of info to process, thanks all three of you for the answers, I'll just try to answer the few, randomly, which I have an answer for currently. :) Most executables either have no extension at all or "_exe". But in a foreign land one should obey foreign customs, so ".exe...