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    From Aug@2:460/256 to maurice kinal on Monday, December 29, 2025 04:13:49
    Hi maurice...


    Hey Maurice.. a friend of mine started to dabble with recompiling openxp and identified a few files that need extra attention:

    grep .pas errs | uniq
    xpcurses.pas(33,3) Fatal: Can't find unit xpcharset used by xpcurses typeform.pas(495,6) Fatal: Can't find unit xpunicode used by typeform xpcurses.pas(33,3) Fatal: Can't find unit xpcharset used by xpcurses netcallindy.pas(28,22) Fatal: Can't find unit IdMessage used by netcallindy xpcurses.pas(33,3) Fatal: Can't find unit xpcharset used by xpcurses mime.pas(33,3) Fatal: Can't find unit xpcharset used by mime mime_base64.pas(32,12) Fatal: Can't find unit xpstreams used by mime_base64 mime_qp.pas(27,15) Fatal: Can't find unit xpstreams used by mime_qp xpterminal.pas(32,26) Fatal: Can't find unit objcom used by xpterminal xpcurses.pas(33,3) Fatal: Can't find unit xpcharset used by xpcurses

    ..maybe that helps you?

    Also, take a look inside the distros.txt file. It mentions a few things about ncurses that may apply to your linux build.

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Aug on Monday, December 29, 2025 01:49:22
    Hey Aug!

    Also, take a look inside the distros.txt file. It mentions a few
    things about ncurses that may apply to your linux build.

    Will do once I get a working pascal compiler going. First things first.

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    Maurice

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.59 to Maurice Kinal on Sunday, December 28, 2025 22:19:59
    On 29 Dec. 2025 01:49, you wrote to Aug:

    Will do once I get a working pascal compiler going. First things first.

    Not sure what your "linuxfromscratch" requires, but the openxp stuff seems to be tailored for debian-based distros.

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to August Abolins on Monday, December 29, 2025 03:54:20
    Hey August!

    the openxp stuff seems to be tailored for debian-based distros

    No surprise there. Anyhow I did manage to get a working freepascal going which I then used to recompile the freepascal source with. Seems to be working except for compiling openxp which is the only reason I bothered at all. I may pick this up after the new glibc upgrade but I have serious doubts about this. Fortunetly I've had utf-8 working just fine with gcc and friends so this really isn't needed ... perhaps not even desirable.

    gcc is most definetly the way to go.

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    Maurice

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