Free Pascal 2.0 is released !!!

Free Pascal 2.0 is released!
http://www.freepascal.org/

Hard times for Borland...

Max wrote:
> Free Pascal 2.0 is released!
> http://www.freepascal.org/
>
> Hard times for Borland...
>
>

I don't know about that,
I compiled the following on Delphi 7 and on Free Pascal

program junk;
begin
writeln('dfdfdf');
end.


On Delphi 7 the exe was 16k
on Free Pascal it was 103k

Just glancing through the compiler options I could not find any thing that w
ould make it smaller,
Debugging was off etc.


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"tony" <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com> wrote in message
news:4288e961$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Max wrote: 
>
> I don't know about that,
> I compiled the following on Delphi 7 and on Free Pascal
>
> program junk;
> begin
>     writeln('dfdfdf');
> end.
>
>
> On Delphi 7 the exe was 16k
> on Free Pascal it was 103k
>
> Just glancing through the compiler options I could not find any thing that
> would make it smaller,
> Debugging was off etc.

I read through the docs and at one point they say there's a high
compatiblity with TP 7 (whoopee!) and at another point they say it's
compatible with Delphi 4.  I couldn't find a breakdown of what is compatible
and what is not.  Am I missing it?

Dan

On 2005-05-16, Dan Palley <dan@trams.com> wrote: 
>
> I read through the docs and at one point they say there's a high
> compatiblity with TP 7 (whoopee!) and at another point they say it's
> compatible with Delphi 4.  I couldn't find a breakdown of what is compatib
le
> and what is not.  Am I missing it?

Both, since the compiler has multiple modi. TP7 and D6-7 are currently the
targets. Delphi compat is not complete yet, packages and OLE support are the
most important missing parts, together with implements style delegation.

tony wrote:
> Max wrote:
> 
...

> I compiled the following on Delphi 7 and on Free Pascal
>
> program junk;
> begin
>     writeln('dfdfdf');
> end.
>
>
> On Delphi 7 the exe was 16k
> on Free Pascal it was 103k

set Path=C:\Lazarus\pp\bin\win32\
strip ExeName.exe
upx ExeName.exe

wait till you see how big the GUI apps can become ... and how much they shri
nk.



cheers,



Mat

Not sure what strip does, but upx is a exe compressor, and regular
delphi responds to these very well also. I have used aspack and it
shrinks GUI apps a lot.


>
> set Path=C:\Lazarus\pp\bin\win32\
> strip ExeName.exe
> upx ExeName.exe
>

Hi!

> Hard times for Borland...

The funny thing about this. Borland does not consider most
of the features of FreePascal as relevant to Delphi
developers...

(except maybe for 64bit support).

Regards!
Atmapuri

"Atmapuri" <janez.makovsek@usa.net> wrote:
>Hi!
> 
>
>The funny thing about this. Borland does not consider most
>of the features of FreePascal as relevant to Delphi
>developers...
>
>(except maybe for 64bit support).
>

I think there is some misunderstanding. The goal of FPC isn't to compete wit
h Delphi/Kylix but to fill the gaps Delphi/Kylix doesn't cover so object pas
cal can stand against C, C++, C# etc. Having a good commercial compiler and 
a good oss compiler is alwa
ys nice for a language.

On 2005-05-17, tony <tony@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not sure what strip does, but upx is a exe compressor, and regular
> delphi responds to these very well also. I have used aspack and it
> shrinks GUI apps a lot.

Strip removes debuginfo.

So the options in the IDE (crappy dos one) and Lazarus do absolutely
nothing then?  I don't have debug info turned on, so there should be
none in the exe.  Guess FPC needs alot more work then.

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On 2005-05-17, tony <tony@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>
>
> Strip removes debuginfo.