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Comment · 12 days ago
My website has been hosting downloads with alternate versions of the compiler and ide for nearly 15 years now. I also have published JsonTools, BareGame, TinySim, the original Shell Controls, and lots of other packages for the Lazarus community. The install scripts at https://www.getlazarus.org/setup simply download a seed compiler, the sources, and builds, while making certain it does not interfere with user's existing setups by restricting configuration settings to your chosen install folder. In other words, you can run my version and your existing version at the same time without any problems, and if you don't like my version the uninstall process is to delete a folder, and perhaps a shortcut if you copied it anywhere.
Comment · 13 days ago
That feature you mentioned was added by the Delphi team in support of closures. They way they developed it was jankey IMO, as it creates an interface behind the scenes and populate with information about the local stack.
Though I do very much appreciate C#, with its lambda functions, expression trees, and especially the tooling, Free Pascal and Lazarus exist as a happy compromise between those things and native code integration, where working with C libraries like libcairo, libxml2, libssl, libsdl, and opengl are much easier and a pleasure to work with when using Free Pascal, and conversely are more difficult to wrangle when using C# or Java.
Comment · 13 days ago
I have been running the website getlazarus.org for 13 years to support add features to both FPC and Lazarus that jump ahead of the normal releases. We have been working of dynamic packages for a long time, and there will be a period between now, and when it is sent as a MR back into the mainline. When enough time has passed and feedback given these features are typically rolled into the main release, and at getlazarus I move on towards developing the next features.
Comment · 13 days ago
Thank you. This has been a long time coming, perhaps 20 years in the making. I realize people are moving on to newer languages and frameworks, but there is just something special about older versions of Delphi and now Lazarus that makes it so much easier to write desktop software than most other frameworks. You can just drop components on a form designer, press run, and in a second's time you have a program. Of course there is more to it than that, but with dynamic package support, users can make or use components even faster as they no longer need to rebuild the IDE to install or uninstall native code.
Comment · 13 days ago
I am pleased to announce the first release of full dynamic package support for the Free Pascal Compiler and the Lazarus IDE. This feature has been a long time coming for the FPC ecosystem and has taken more than 20 years to realize through the work of many FOSS individuals.
Dynamic packages allow programmers to create and install components, controls, and Lazarus extensions in seconds without rebuilding the entire Lazarus IDE. They can also be used in by Free Pascal programmers to develop and deploy plugins that expose native Pascal classes and types through dynamic package libraries. To support this functionality, I have made numerous improvements to the compiler, its runtime, and the Lazarus IDE. I have also created additional IDE extensions to improve the experience of working with Lazarus packages. Read more at the link above.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's super easy to design using OnShape. Hit me up with private message and I will show you everything you need to model 3D printable parts in under 5 minutes.
Comment · 2 years ago
The website zombo.com is actually quite relaxing. I spend a few hours each day visiting it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is it that hard to:
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That is common at the moment. Their servers are overloaded due to the wild popularity of ChatGpt and often the session will just "break", erasing any context or learning it had acquired in your session. You must then start over.
First, as an example here is a small game I wrote using my Pascal toolkit that has been in the works for many years. It mixes 2D and 3D, features a fairly complete, skinnable vector UI widget set, runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi, and can even run on a bare bones system without a display manager. It is essentially a free demo of a simple project featuring rich text interspersed with animation, sounds, and effects.
https://www.getlazarus.org/codebot/cardgame/
We have been working of finally supporting of dynamic packages for FPC and Lazarus and released our first public version earlier in the week. You can read about dynamic packages here:
https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
My personal Tiny.Sim game engine has been greatly enhanced and incorporated into a single library called the Codebot Library. It includes many features of interest to game developers. The 2D physics system is bug free and quite complete. It supports all kinds of audio files and formats and includes my vector UI toolkit. Several demos are available when you install the IDE. The library supports both a mix of LCL controls and pure SDL game development. You can read about it here, along with a huge reference system to help you learn:
https://www.getlazarus.org/codebot
My personal game Obliterate was written in Pascal using this library:
https://cache.getlazarus.org/videos/game-demo.mp4
Other features of interest include a unified theming system for the Lazarus IDE and your desktop applications on both Windows and Linux:
https://www.getlazarus.org/forums/topic/5/
There are also new shell controls for Windows users. I first published this library in 2007, but it has been greatly enhanced with new COM interfaces for Windows.
https://www.getlazarus.org/codebot/reference/?page=codebot_w...
Other features include modern web browser controls for Windows, Linux, and macOS, networking utilities, additional graphics features, JSON and XML support, cryptography, and string handling libraries.
Everything is free and open source. Very soon we will be releasing version 6.0 of the IDE, so keep a look out for that in a few weeks and thank you for reading.