[lazarus] Lazarus on windows 98 runs

[Michael A. Hess]

From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at zonnet.nl>

----- Original Message -----
From: Shane Miller <SMiller1 at stvgb.org>

> Lazarus is supposed to run under win32.  I'm not sure why the win32
> dll's don't export those functions. Perhaps the dll's that you have
> aren't the latest.

The dll's are the latest. Maybe some should ask the maintainer of the
gtk dlls for win32, if he plans to port the remaining functions to
win32.

>I don't know about that.  Currently I and most of the other developers
> are concentrating on LINUX so I rarely if ever test it under win32.
>

I understand that Linux is the main (development) platform, but IMHO
every once in a while the code should be tested for complatibility on
win32. I am willing to do that,  if you want to.

> LCLLinux:  I'm not sure about using LCLLinux under Win32.  Sure, it
> seems like it could be done, but it's intent (and the reason we named
> it what we did) was that it would be used only under Linux.  Maybe
> we'll have to revisit that and take a look at what the
> intent/possibilities are and rename it.
>

If it is not to be used on win32, more care has to be taken in defining
the interface of LCLLinux. Then it should match the windows.pp interface
exactly.
Example:
LCLLinux (actually WinApih.inc)
function ExtTextOut(DC: HDC; X, Y: Integer; Options: Longint; Rect:
PRect;
Str: PChar; Count: Longint; Dx: PInteger): Boolean;  override;
Windows.pp (actually ascdef.inc and unidef.inc)

Also new functions and constants (i.e. those not existing in the
windows.pp) can't put be put LCLLinux.
Example:
The constants CLR_INVALID and FW_BLACK are declared in LCLLinux but not
in Windows.pp (or its includes).

I remember once seeing on the list a message from Micheal Hess (I think)
in which he explained with text diagrams how the intefface object worked
together the widget sets and the LCL. I have been looking my mailbox and
the archive but I couldn't find it.
If it is still up to date it could be added to "Welcome to the Lazarus
Project Information Page" Shane sent out 11-01-2000.