[Lazarus] Porting Delphi to Lazarus

[drew einhorn]

Getting the Lazarus IDE as is up on the OLPC,  would be a great thing to do.

And it would be really great if we could gather some folks who know Lazarus
inside and out to work on the missing pieces necessary to port WorldVistA
to the XO.

I see folks in the list archives wishing for TRichEdit and TFrame.  Even if
we
don't get everything we need for WorldVistA done at this HealthJam, we will
probably succeed in making some people very happy with increased VCL
coverage for LCL.

And we are in the process of organizing a HealthJamSW somewhere TBA in
New Mexico in June or July.

2008/3/14 Jon Bertrand <JonB at cirris.com>:

>  I didn't have any concern - heck it looks way cool.  I was just suprised
> to see this on laptop.org.
>
> It got me thinking I should try to get Laz going on my OLPC.  That didn't
> occur to me.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org [mailto:
> lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org]*On Behalf Of *drew einhorn
> *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2008 1:58 PM
> *To:* General mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [Lazarus] Porting Delphi to Lazarus
>
> Depends I guess on exactly what you mean by OLPC project.
> And what your concerns are.
>
> Has the WorldVistA project been officially endorsed by OLPC management?
> Not yet.  I'm hoping it will be soon.
>
> Is it targeted for a garden variety linux PC or the OLPC XO.  Definitely
> the XO.
>
> A commercial vendor already has a mono port that runs on Linux.
>
> Will all work on this project be released under the GPL?  Definitely!
>
> The event is an OLPC Health Jam.  There will be lots of other folks
> working on
> OLPC Health related projects, and if you decide you don't like us or our
> project,
> you can defect and join another team working on Medical Sensor hardware,
> health curriculum,...
>
> If you attend the event, I'm sure you will find something fun,
> constructive,  worthwhile...
> Whether or not it is our project.
>
> 2008/3/14 Jon Bertrand <JonB at cirris.com>:
>
> >  Is this an OLPC project or just a Jam to get the VistA going on Linux?
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org [mailto:
> > lazarus-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org]*On Behalf Of *drew einhorn
> > *Sent:* Friday, March 14, 2008 12:17 PM
> > *To:* lazarus at lazarus.freepascal.org
> > *Subject:* [Lazarus] Porting Delphi to Lazarus
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm organizing a team attending Health Jam Seattle
> > April 18-20
> >
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_Jam
> >
> > We will be porting the VA's VistA software frontends
> > to Lazarus/Free Pascal.  VistA is the IT infrastructure
> > that runs the VA's hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics.
> > It includes a complete Electronic Medical Record System.
> >
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WorldVistA#VistA
> >
> > We are hoping some Lazarus/Free Pascal developers will join us.
> >
> > VistA CPRS Delphi source statistices
> >
> > Count of files by extension
> >
> > .avi 1
> > .bak 21
> > .BMP 1
> > .bmp 117
> > .~bpl 1
> > .bpl 1
> > .cfg 5
> > .dcp 1
> > .dcr 5
> > .dcu 18
> > .ddp 236
> > .~ddp 74
> > .dfm 252
> > .~dfm 85
> > .dklang 1
> > .doc 1
> > .dof 5
> > .dpk 4
> > .~dpr 1
> > .dpr 1
> > .drc 5
> > .~dsk 1
> > .dsk 2
> > .dsm 1
> > .html 1
> > .jcf 1
> > .JDF 1
> > .JGF 1
> > .jpg 1
> > .jsb 1
> > .jsd 1
> > .JSS 1
> > .map 1
> > .old 1
> > .~pas 100
> > .pas 326
> > .rc 1
> > .res 10
> > .~tlb 1
> > .tlb 1
> > .~txt 1
> > .TXT 1
> > .txt 2
> > .vpw 1
> > .we 1
> >
> > .pas files total 204651 lines
> >
> > We hope to have gotten past compilation issues by the
> > HealthJam, and be focusing on the necessary VCL
> > components missing from LCL.  But we may still
> > be fighting compilation issues.
> >
> > Been resisting the urge trying to extract the VCL calls
> > from the code.  Been hoping to get through the compilations
> > and get the linker or somthing to give me a count.
> >
> > Folks who are familiar with the CPRS code to a quick look at:
> >
> >     http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Components
> >
> > And noticed TFrame and TRichEdit are missing.
> > There's almost certainly more.
> >
> > I made a couple stabs at converting to Lazarus.
> >
> > Most recent on a Ubuntu box using the testing repos
> >
> >     lazarus 0.9.24 beta 5/11/07
> >     free pascal  2.2.0-1
> >
> > Getting "safecall" errors at compile time.  I see stuff in the
> > bug tracker about "safecall" runtime issues not resolve till
> > 2.3.1
> >
> > So next thing I need to do is find the right vintage of Lazarus/Free
> > Pascal.
> > --
> > Drew Einhorn
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Drew Einhorn
>
>
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Drew Einhorn
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