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Jonas Maebe 159912ec47 * fixed definition of pthread_mutex_t for non-linux targets (and for
linux as well, actually).
  * base libpthread definitions are now in ptypes.inc, included in unixtype
    They sometimes have an extra underscore in front of their name, in
    case they were also exported by the packages/base/pthreads unit, so
    they can keep their original name there
  * cthreadds unit now imports systuils, because it uses exceptions (it
    already did so before as well)
  * fixed many linux definitions of libpthread functions in pthrlinux.inc
    (integer -> cint etc)
  + added culonglong type to ctype.inc
2004-09-09 20:29:06 +00:00
compiler + Added argument to Stop 2004-09-09 08:19:47 +00:00
demo * 2nd recommendation 3177 2004-06-21 07:03:36 +00:00
docs + Initial check-in 2004-09-09 20:17:07 +00:00
fcl + Patch from Vincent Snijders to correctly handle PeekExitStatus 2004-09-09 13:47:38 +00:00
fv + Version 1.9.4 2004-05-30 09:44:59 +00:00
fvision + Version 1.9.4 2004-05-30 09:44:59 +00:00
ide * makefiles regenerated 2004-09-04 23:33:38 +00:00
install * merged fixes from debian maintainer 2004-08-17 16:51:42 +00:00
installer * makefiles regenerated 2004-09-04 23:33:38 +00:00
packages * fixed definition of pthread_mutex_t for non-linux targets (and for 2004-09-09 20:29:06 +00:00
rtl * fixed definition of pthread_mutex_t for non-linux targets (and for 2004-09-09 20:29:06 +00:00
tests + New test. Already fixed by Peter 2004-08-30 12:11:18 +00:00
utils + support for creating packed records 2004-09-08 22:21:41 +00:00
Makefile * makefiles regenerated 2004-09-04 23:33:38 +00:00
Makefile.fpc * disable rpm when not available 2004-05-30 12:49:05 +00:00

This is the README for the Free Pascal documentation.

All documentation is stored here, in LaTeX format. 
it uses special style files (fpc*.sty) which are also in the directory.

do a 'make dvi' to produce the dvi format of the docs.
a 'make html' will produce the html version (using latex2html).
a 'make ps' will produce PostScript documents.
a 'make pdf' will produce PDF (Portable Document Format) documents.
a 'make txt' will produce plain text documents.

If you want to produce dos docs, you can do a 'make htm' this will convert
the .html files to .htm files (including all references), suitable for a 8:3
format.

The rest of this document is only interesting if you want to write docs.
Otherwise, you can bail out now.

THE DOCS...

Why LaTeX ? 
- because I like a printed copy of the manuals, HTML just isn't good enough 
  for this.
- I know LaTeX very well :) (mind you : html also !)
- It converts to many other formats.
- many other reasons.

In order to translate the things to HTML, I use latex2html, since it is the
most powerful and flexible, although sluggish... 
For it to be able to use the fpc.sty, I had to write a fpc.perl script
which it loads. The script seems to run fine when used standalone, but in
conjunction with latex2html, I get a out of memory... ??
I'm not familiar with perl, so if someone is, and can fix the thing, please
do. (and let me know :) )

Then how to proceed ?
If you just want to write latex docs, just use fpc.sty. (you don't need
html.sty)
If you want to be able to convert to html, (you need html.sty) the following 
fixes the perl-problem :
In the preamble of  your document, type :

\usepackage{html}
\latex{\usepackage{fpc}}
\html{\input{fpc-html.tex}}

The fpc-html.tex defines the same commands as fpc.sty, only in a language
that latex2html understands.

fpc.sty.doc describes what fpc.sty does. (one day I'll integrate them using
the doc package, but I need some time for it)

Happy TeXing,
Michael.