C/C++ vs Pascal

[User137]

I just stumbled across fpc version of map, called TFPGMap. Something like:

TMyMap = specialize TFPGMap <TObject, TObject>;

It's hard to find any documentation about it though, last post in this message-chain seems relevant:
http://web.archiveorange.com/archive...12vEIenhSBOh3g
I'm also unsure what version of FPC is needed.

[hwnd]

I found this for D7:
http://www.vanwal.nl/rbtree/

But i didn't try it properly.

Also found this for FP 2.7.1
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/in...?topic=17902.0

FPC 2.7.1 is needed to compile it. The older versions will not compile this one.

Also this:
http://code.google.com/p/stlpascal/

Will try it later. Maybe i will have to port my editor to FreePascal / Lazarus to use this neat stuff. Dunno.


Also i don't understand, why is FP 2.7.1 only available with Lazarus 1.1 (which btw, just crashes like crazy for me, i can't even use it) but not also as individual download?

[User137]

2.7.1 is propably not considered stable yet. What i read quickly about TFPGMap too, is that there is no documentation yet because they're not even sure if they'll keep the syntax like that. It is the SVN version of freepascal, which i actually use along with SVN of Lazarus. Getting them compiled and running might be a little tricky though, but propably worth the effort.

If you want to compile fpc from source code, you need to do that with previous earlier stable release of FPC. For FPC 2.7.1 you propably need to download FPC 2.6.0 (or 2.6.1?) and compile SVN with that. There can be a bit fiddling with fpc.cfg configs, system PATH-variables and so on. I don't like to do that often... It's easier to update SVN Lazarus, assuming those fpc.cfg and PATH's are set right to point the SVN version FPC.