Can't compile with Pascal

[Hoernchen]

I have tried going through the first step section using Free Pascal and no matter what I do, it gives me errors every time I try to compile the darn HelloWorld.exe....

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D:\My Documents\Documents\Hoernchen\Programming\SwinGame>winbuild.cmd HelloWorld.exe

SwinGame.ico
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Compiling game using FPC
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Output can be found in the bin folder
cpp: Too many arguments
windres: GameLauncher.rc:1: syntax error

Why won't it let me compile and gives these errors? I had no previous experience with Pascal yet, so I am fairly clueless....

[acain]

Can you type the following at the command line and let me know what it outputs

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echo %PATH%

[Hoernchen]

Thanks for the quick reply. I typed in the command and received:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Hoernchen>echo %PATH%
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Tec
hnologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;;C:\Program Fil
es\Free Pascal\bin\i386-Win32

There is one path related to Pascal. Is there supposed to be more than one? I am sorry if this makes me look like a huge newb.

[acain]

No thats fine

try:

set PATH=C:\Program Files\Free Pascal\bin\i386-Win32
then run the winbuild script again.

The problem is with windres which is used to create the icon for the application.

Let me know how that goes and I'll see if I can work out what is missing

[Hoernchen]

I did all that, but I am still getting the same compile error.

[acain]

Weird. What version of Windows are you running, and what version of the compiler are you using?

[Hoernchen]

Windows XP with Service Pack 3.
Free Pascal v1.0.10

[acain]

You need to use the latest version of Free Pascal version 2.2.4. You can download it from http://www.freepascal.org/download.var

[acain]

I've managed to reproduce this issue with the 2.2.4 compiler.

The problem appears to be that Free Pascal does not like to be installed in a directory that contains spaces (i.e. c:\Program Files\...).

To correct the problem:
1: Un-install Free Pascal
2: Install Free Pascal at the default location (C:\FPC\2.2.4)
3: Add the Free Pascal bin directory (C:\FPC\2.2.4\bin\i386-win32) to your path (http://mercury.it.swin.edu.au/swinbrain ... les_How_To)
4: Try the script again.

Hope this helps.

[Hoernchen]

Ok, thank you, I did what you told me and now it seems to work fine. Thanks a lot for the help


Btw, don't want to create a new thread for it, but I am experiencing a problem with Cos, Sin and Tan functions. No matter what value I put into them, I get return values in the millions. This shouldn't be happening, unless my trigonometric knowledge is seriously flawed. However, Sin(0) seems to return the proper answer, 0....
Any idea why this would be happening?

[acain]

Sin, Cos and Tan in SwinGame should work fine, note however that they use Degrees not Radians.