[lazarus] Just another bug

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:23:52 +0100
Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:

> At 15:22 13.11.2002, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:31:35 +0100
> > > Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 19:45 11.11.2002, you wrote:
> > > > >On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:31:51 +0300
> > > > >"Vasily I. Volchenko" <Vasily.Volchenko at mstu.edu.ru> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I found and dissolved this error (without fixing). The problem
> > > > > > was in my compiler: I used localized messages (Russian). It is
> > > > > > not a good idea to make lazarus fpc language depended, but...
> > > > >
> > > > >Hmm, I have never tried a localized compiler.
> > > > >The IDE must ask the compiler about its environment. Like macros
> > > > >and search paths.
> > > > >Is there an option so that a localized compiler will answer in the
> > > > >default language (english)?
> > > > >And how can lazarus find out, what language the compiler is
> > > > >speaking?
> > > >
> > > > Regarding answering, I think an -Ferrore.msg should be enough. It
> > > > should override the configuration file options.
> > >
> > > Thx. That helps.
> > > I have added a small message file to the codetools, so that the IDE
> > > now overrides localization for the hidden fpc outputs.
> > > But the visible fpc output in the messages is more tricky ...
> > >
> > >
> > > > There is no way yet to figure out the used language.
> > >
> > > Hmm. Even if we can do that, we need also the translated message.
> > > For example: Because the IDE parses the fpc output, it needs to know,
> > > what message marks an 'error', a 'note', ... .
> > > Any ideas?
> > > How does the text IDE do this?
> >
> >It has the compiler built in and simply shows the message as produced by
> >the compiler, which is determined by the -Fr switch.
> >(this may and will give problems with some locales of course. The IDE
> >doesn't handle that)
> 
> What about writing a semi-GUI wrapper for the compiler used by lazarus?
> I.e. a compiler which gets all settings via IPC and returns status
> info the same way. So you don't have the disadvantages of an integrated
> compiler like a crashing compiler crashes the IDE, memory leaks caused
> by the compiler etc..

Nice idea. 
But what about compiling via makefiles and scripts?


Mattias