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Re: Porting my BP7 programs to linux?




> Hi. I have made a nice screen-saver-alike program awhile ago with
> Borland (Turbo) Pascal 7.
> It will now run using DOSEmu, (maybe coz it uses direct assembly which
> conflivts with it? have no idea why)
> anyway i wish to convert it to linux so if i want to show it to someone
> i wont have to use my DOS boot floppy.
> so is there a way to use pascal with linux? it uses direct assembly for
> some procedures and some untits.
> (which i have the source of them since i made them myself) but is there
> any BP7-compatible pascal?

There are at least three ways: fpc, gpc, and p2c.
gpc and fpc claim to have extensive Borland support.


My experience, shows that rewriting in C by hand is usually the
easiest way, (though the nig project I ported was before I learned
about gpc and fpc).




Matan Ziv-Av.        zivav@cs.bgu.ac.il