From:	Peter Gerwinski <peter AT agnes DOT dida DOT physik DOT uni-essen DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: HELP:NEED GPC graphics library
Date:	6 Dec 1997 19:26:20 GMT
Organization:	Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
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M. Ghassempoory wrote:
> 
> Sorry to post this here, I could not find any other news group which
> was relevant.

Since this is a DJGPP-specific problem, you are right here.
For other places to look for help with GNU Pascal, see
http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/support.html.

> I have written some programs in TURBO PASCAL, using GRAPH.TPU. A
> couple  of my students want to run them under GPC. Has anybody
> tried to port GRAPH.TPU to GPC yet? Or do I have to
> do it myself? I know BCC2GRX exists, but it is in C. Is there a
> pascal version anywhere?

Yes.  Sven Hilscher has written a Pascal interface to BCC2GRX
(called BGI2GRX) which is a drop-in replacement for GRAPH.TPU.
Get it from ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/contrib/.

Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT de> wrote:
> The actual bcc2grx v2.0 doesn't have the GPC stuff, next version will
> support pascal.

(* You mean: The *current* bcc2grx ... ;*)

The GPC stuff missing in bcc2grx v2.0 is distributed separately
in BGI2GRX.

> GRX v2.2 includes a pascal interface, but isn't graph.tpu compatible.

I'd like to add:  Since the GRX library is portable (to Linux/SVGAlib
and to Linux/X11 - perhaps even to other UNIXes/X11?) and superior to
GRAPH.TPU anyway, you should really download GRX v2.2 and use its
Pascal interface for developing new applications.  OTOH if you want to
port existing Borland Pascal applications to GNU Pascal, use BGI2GRX.

Greetings,

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
peter DOT gerwinski AT uni-essen DOT de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005]
 maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]

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