Hi everyone
Just reporting my first experience with fpreport, I updated FPC + Lazarus trunk on a Windows 7 VM 64 bits using FPCupdeluxe, with the sole purpose of compiling fpreport demo and check how it looks like, I found that it was not posible to compile the lclfpreport package, at first because missing units, the very first error I got was something like: Cannot find fpreport used by cfg... I double checked the fpreport folder and indeed the file was missing, then I went to fpgui repository on github and pulled that file ( and others missing ) from there, then I got another error: "fpreport - Illegal unit name", I'm not familiar at all with Lazarus yet, I solved it by renaming the unit to fpreport_ but then I had to correct a lot of references to the original name, at the end succeeded on my adventure of compiling lclfpreport, then I proceeded to compile the demo, I had an experience similar to the previous one plus changing some defines and installing freetype on windows but at the end all went fine and I could ran the demo from the command line, I did the same more or less for the IDE packages, played a little bit with the designer, it looks neat :-).
As I stated before I'm not that familiar with packages and Lazarus, I'm sure renaming fpreport file can be avoided
Now, I'm not sure it is safe to mix code from the two repositories, everything compiles and works fine AFAICS but I would prefer to pull all the source from the same place, perhaps it is not available in trunk yet?
Anyway
wonderful work you have done there, I just wanted to have a taste of fpreport and it looks promising, keep up the good work, I'll be looking forward for future commits.
Thank you all.