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Zath

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Coding for Windows ME
« on: January 31, 2015, 10:10:30 am »
If I wanted to code something for Windows ME, what would I need to do ?
Do you have to make the program on a new install and set it to run on the older version or is it possible for Lazarus to be installed on a legacy windows like ME ?

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balazsszekely

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2015, 10:15:24 am »
Take a look at this, and draw the conclusions  :D
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Screenshots
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JuhaManninen

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2015, 01:42:03 pm »
It works "out of the box", but the coming Lazarus 1.4 will be the last major release that supports Win9x and ME.
Lazarus 1.4 will get minor dot-releases for 1-2 years and continues to work also after that, so no worries for you.
Lazarus 2.0 will use Unicode features from FPC 3.0 which do not work in Win ME any more.
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Fred vS

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2015, 02:53:50 pm »
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Take a look at this, and draw the conclusions  :D
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Screenshots

Ooops => ReactOS_v03.15 => What's that ?
Has somebody test it ?

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2015, 03:04:05 pm »
Unfortunately it is not that simple.
Trunk and upcoming 1.4 will not run on Win9x out of the box anymore, due to statically linking in some XP+ kernel functions used for the debugging functions.

The workaround is pretty easy though.
As long as the installer supports win9x (1.2 installer still does), just install.
You have to make sure that fpc.exe is in the %path% (installer on win9x does not handle that for you).

Then change to Lazarus dir and do
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make clean bigide OPT="-dWIN9XPLATFORM"

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2015, 03:17:59 pm »
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Ooops => ReactOS_v03.15 => What's that ?
Has somebody test it ?

https://www.reactos.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9lpg7HRYSo
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Fred vS

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2015, 03:23:55 pm »
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I use Lazarus 2.2.0 32/64 and FPC 3.2.2 32/64 on Debian 11 64 bit, Windows 10, Windows 7 32/64, Windows XP 32,  FreeBSD 64.
Widgetset: fpGUI, MSEgui, Win32, GTK2, Qt.

https://github.com/fredvs
https://gitlab.com/fredvs
https://codeberg.org/fredvs

JuhaManninen

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Re: Coding for Windows ME
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2015, 04:44:29 pm »
Quote from: Bart on January 31, 2015, 03:04:05 pm
Then change to Lazarus dir and do
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make clean bigide OPT="-dWIN9XPLATFORM"

Thanks Bart, I forgot about that.
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