Might I ask if it's possible to create a full environment to compile VPA from scratch? In other words are all VPA sources, library and compilers freely available and of course what exactly could I need? At least some rough indications... asa I'll get it working I could post a detailed to-do list!
Thanks in advance
Paolo (Italy)
[smart in programming, dumb w/ PCs]
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VPA generally is compiled with Borland Pascal 7.0. With that, all it takes to recompile is to chdir into vpa/vpa, edit the makefile and type "make".
I have not tried to use TP 6.0, neither did I try other compilers -- but VPA contains inline assembly, so gpc will probably not work. Of course, porting that would probably useful, too.
Or, buy a second-hand copy of BP7 somewhere.
Sometimes, BP7 comes bundled with books.
In addition, you *might* need an assembler; such a beast comes bundled with BP7. OTOH, it should be trivial to eliminate the assembly thing, it's just an easter-egg anyway :-)
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Thanks for the info Stefan, neither france (nor English btw) are my best laguages, so I'll give a look to http://www.freepascal.org which seems to be a nice product...
I'm not a wizard with CVS, do I have to download all the three branches of the tree: cvsroot, vpa, vpafix?
Thanks again
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French Turbo Pascal: my French is not better than yours, but Google does a decent job translating the questionnaire. Too bad they want a phone number. I do not have a telephone :-)
You need only the "vpafix" branch. cvsroot is administrative stuff, and "vpa" is abandoned.
Many many thanks Stefan; I'll centainly use your .tgz also if sourceforge (with wincvs) is returning me:
cvs -q login
(Logging in to pserver:anonymous@cvs.vpa.sourceforge.net)
Fatal error, aborting.
pserver:anonymous: no such user
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.vpa.sourceforge.net rejected access to /cvsroot/vpa for user pserver:anonymous
*****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
Ciao Paolo
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Might I ask if it's possible to create a full environment to compile VPA from scratch? In other words are all VPA sources, library and compilers freely available and of course what exactly could I need? At least some rough indications... asa I'll get it working I could post a detailed to-do list!
Thanks in advance
Paolo (Italy)
[smart in programming, dumb w/ PCs]
VPA generally is compiled with Borland Pascal 7.0. With that, all it takes to recompile is to chdir into vpa/vpa, edit the makefile and type "make".
I have not tried to use TP 6.0, neither did I try other compilers -- but VPA contains inline assembly, so gpc will probably not work. Of course, porting that would probably useful, too.
You can try downloading Turbo Pascal 7.0 *in French* from the Borland site:
http://www.borland.fr/download/compilateurs/
Or, buy a second-hand copy of BP7 somewhere.
Sometimes, BP7 comes bundled with books.
In addition, you *might* need an assembler; such a beast comes bundled with BP7. OTOH, it should be trivial to eliminate the assembly thing, it's just an easter-egg anyway :-)
Thanks for the info Stefan, neither france (nor English btw) are my best laguages, so I'll give a look to http://www.freepascal.org which seems to be a nice product...
I'm not a wizard with CVS, do I have to download all the three branches of the tree: cvsroot, vpa, vpafix?
Thanks again
French Turbo Pascal: my French is not better than yours, but Google does a decent job translating the questionnaire. Too bad they want a phone number. I do not have a telephone :-)
You need only the "vpafix" branch. cvsroot is administrative stuff, and "vpa" is abandoned.
I thought there was a feature "nightly CVS tarball" at Source Forge. Well, here's a pre-packaged one: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~sr21/planets/vpa-07052002.tgz (complete VPA source, from five minutes ago).
Many many thanks Stefan; I'll centainly use your .tgz also if sourceforge (with wincvs) is returning me:
cvs -q login
(Logging in to pserver:anonymous@cvs.vpa.sourceforge.net)
Fatal error, aborting.
pserver:anonymous: no such user
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.vpa.sourceforge.net rejected access to /cvsroot/vpa for user pserver:anonymous
*****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
Ciao Paolo
The value of cvsroot must be ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.vpa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/vpa" (note leading colon).
BTW, current .tgz file is vpa-08052002.tgz.