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Old March 15th 19, 08:06 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Wierd question - a pascal compiler for WIn7???

pyotr filipivich wrote:

This is the current problem: I have a program written in Pascal
and Windows 7 won't run it. Tells me to contact the developer and get
support. Except that I am the developer, and I wrote when I should
have been doing class work (the original was written on the Honeywell,
then ported to Turbo Pascal.)
A quick search shows me that Borland is no longer supporting Turbo
Pascal, so, recommendation for a Pascal compiler for Windows 7?
I thought about running the source code through a conversion
program, and "porting it" to C/C+, C++ DC++=&#, but then I'd have to
know C* to clean up the results. And find a C compiler, too.

so, recommendation for a Pascal compiler for Windows 7?

tschus
pyotr

*I started to port the code to C, instead of doing _that_ classwrok,
but I don't have that source code at all. Maybe on a 5 1/4 floppy,
somewhere. In a box marked Mag Media.


Never used it (nor Pascal much) but my recollection is that Delphi
superceded Object Pascal. I don't remember back to Turbo Pascal to
remember if it encompassed the object paradigm. There are Delphi
newsgroups where you could inquire about converting Turbo Pascal to
Delphi. Unless you know C++, I would think moving from Turbo Pascal to
Delphi would be more familiar to you.

You sure the problem isn't with the bitwidth of your [compiled] Pascal
code? Windows 7 32-bit would support both 32-bit programs and by using
its WOW (Windows on Windows) emulator it can also run 16-bit programs.
However, if you have Windows 7 64-bit then it runs only 64-bit programs
and 32-bit programs using its WOW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows

You didn't mention the bitwidth of your Windows 7 instance. Also,
"won't run it" does not say what really happens, like the actual error
code.
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