Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!.POSTED.toad.stack.nl!not-for-mail From: Marco van de Voort Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc Subject: Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Stack Usenet News Service Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mud.stack.nl; posting-host="toad.stack.nl:2001:610:1108:5010::135"; logging-data="43814"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@stack.nl" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc:728 On 2016-08-23, P E Schoen wrote: > Recently I discovered FreePascal and the Lazarus IDE. I was rather skeptical > about how useful it might be as a replacement for Borland Delphi (D4Pro) > which I have been using for over 15 years for Windows GUI apps. So yesterday > I decided to download them and install on my new Toshiba Satellite Win10 > laptop. > > I was pleasantly surprised, and I was able to convert, build and run some > simple Delphi projects. But unfortunately I was unable to install the > ComDrv32 serial port component I recently adopted for my legacy BTSA3 and > Ortmaster projects, or the SerialNG component I had been using since about > 2004. The SerialNG would not work on Win10. What actually went wrong with comdrv32 ?