Programming in PASCAL using WDSibyl
Installation and use of a PASCAL programming environment
Michael Oehlhof
Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.
Overview
- Introduction
- History
- Installation
- Using the IDE
- Live Demo
- More Information
About 5 weeks ago I began my work on this presentation
Since no-one provided any information about WDSibyl,
I thought I should do this myself.
Introduction
What is WDSibyl?
- Object oriented pascal compiler, like Delphi or Kylix
- Integrated Development Environment
- Cross platform development for OS/2 and Windows
History
- 1995 SpeedPascal 1.0
- 1999 SpeedSoft Sibyl
Wolfgang Draxler begins bugfixing of libraries
- 2001 IDE Source integrated
- 2004 WDSibyl released
Installation
Required products
- EMX Runtime 0.9d or later
- UNIX-ODBC for OS/2
Download from hobbes (search for UNIXODBC)
Extract zip file and run install.exe
- WDSibyl installation package
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wdsibyl/wdsibyl/
Extract zip file and run OS2_Install.exe
Installation (2)
The installation program
- On the "Directory" tab, select the target directory for the installation.
- On the "Install" tab, press the "Starting Install" button to start the installation.
- The progress is shown via a progress bar. This will take some time because the libraries will be
compiled during the installation
- You will find a new folder named "WDSibyl 3.0" on your desktop after the installation is complete.
Installation (3)
The WDSibyl 3.0 folder contains
- Program icon for WDSibyl
- Samples folder
- Help folder
- OS folder
- Program icon for SPRInstaller
Samples: 17 sample programs
Help: WDsibyl and SPCC in English and German, OS2API in English.
OS: For compiled output, separate OS2 and Win32 folders.
SPRInstaller: Set absolute paths in SPR files after installation.
Using the IDE
- Multiple Languages
- English (IDE and Help)
- German (IDE and Help)
- Dutch (IDE)
- Italiano (IDE)
- Russian (IDE)
The Help files are not up to date. Anybody's help to complete them is welcome.
IDE Windows
- Menu and toolbar
- Editor and Control Center
- Project Manager
- Forms
- Object inspector
Toolbar includes installed components.
Control center shows compiler output, debug messages, breakpoints, variables, and much more.
Project manager organizes all project files, like source code, help files, resources and forms.
Forms shows the visual appearance of the program.
Object inspector shows all properties and events of the selected object.
Live Demo
- The ampos2 package with TYPO3 should be installed.
- The UNIXODBC package should be installed.
- Create a DSN using the ODBC Administrator
Type in a name and select myODBC3 driver
On connection tab fill in "Database", "User Id" and "Password"
Don't forget to set the host to 127.0.0.1
Q & A
- Your questions
- Your remarks
- Your problems
- Your suggestions
The Author
- Name: Michael Oehlhof
- Email: michael@ampos2.de
- Homepage: http://www.ampos2.de
- Member of Team OS/2 Germany
- OS/2 user since 1995, started with OS/2 Warp Connect V3
My projects and activities
- Author/inventor of projects
- AMPOS2 - Apache MySQL PHP for OS/2
- Participant in projects
The End
Thank you very much for your your attention!