[Lazarus] fpGUI WS update

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Feb 4 09:06:09 CET 2018



On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:

> On 2018-02-03 22:49, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
>> Anyway, anybody know where this dependencies in LCL-fpGUI is coming from
>> so we can try and remove it or IFDEF it out for FreeBSD?
>
> After a while it came to me, the IO error is probably a permission issue 
> for my logged in user. So I switched to root user on my FreeBSD system 
> and ran my test project again. It switched to fullscreen Console mode 
> and gave errors in the console. So I guess 'svgalib' is a console 
> graphics library (ie: Turbo Pascal days) or something. Definitely not 
> something that should be used with LCL.

yes, svgalib is a console graphics library. Looks like there is still some
reference to the graph unit in the code, because it links directly to
libsvga.

Michael.


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