[Lazarus] Translating a small C program to pascal (on lazarus)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 25/02/18 20:00, Carlos E. R. via Lazarus wrote:
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> Hi,
> I want to translate a little Linux C program (600 lines) to pascal (so 
> that I can then add my parts in comfort). I failed to find a good 
> automated tool in Linux. I had a look here:
> <http://wiki.freepascal.org/C_to_Pascal>
> I used "OpenC2Pas" but there remains quite a lot to translate.

etc. Presumably the original looks something like 
https://github.com/unterwulf/egctl/blob/master/egctl.c

I've just been through a comparable exercise writing a utility to 
program a Logitech G600 gamer's mouse, and my suggestion would be to use 
Wireshark etc. to get an understanding of the messages going over the 
network then to transcribe the bits of the program you need into Pascal 
manually.

Assuming that since you're asking on the Lazarus ML you're putting 
together a GUI to control the device you probably won't want roughly 
half of the original code which is using C-style string operations to 
read a configuration file.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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