NetBSD & General BSD Support

[polluks]

Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/05/25] for x86_64

uAnsiCrt.pas(392,27) Error: Illegal expression
uAnsiCrt.pas(392,29) Error: Illegal expression
uAnsiCrt.pas(392,29) Fatal: Syntax error, ";" expected but "identifier INT2STR"
found
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode

[SoulDJ673]

@polluks I spun up a fresh NetBSD vm, and I was only able to replicate this error after installing the Linux version of FPC. Building pasfetch using the NetBSD version completes successfully, though is still quite useless. Pasfetch has yet to support any *BSD, and I'm not sure that it will any time soon. Pull requests are welcome, or if support is added upstream I'll merge it in. I'm quite busy but I suppose I could work on it, though that might take a while.

[polluks]

If I comment out INT2STR calls

$ ./pasfetch
An unhandled exception occurred at $0000000000428459:
EFOpenError: Unable to open file "/etc/os-release": No such file or directory
  $0000000000428459
  $00000000004281F3

your exception handling seems incomplete.

[SoulDJ673]

The latest push should work, although still quite useless. I did also notice that it outputs a bogus uptime on NetBSD, and I'm sure it will on other BSDs too. Error handling is a bit messy, I'm not particularly familiar with Pascal. I do plan on cleaning it up later though.

[polluks]

$ gdb ./pasfetch
...
File handling error occurred. Details: File not open
Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x00000000004242ce in GETUPTIME () at uPasfetchUtils.pas:146
146             aDatetime := (GetTickCount64 / SecsPerDay / MSecsPerSec);
...
$ cat /proc/version
NetBSD version 8.2 (netbsd@localhost) (gcc version 5.5.0) NetBSD 8.2 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Mar 31 05:08:40 UTC 2020

[SoulDJ673]

I'm going to be rewriting most of the functions so they don't rely so much on Linux-only things. That line won't exist anymore, so maybe that'll fix it, idk. Stay tuned.

[SoulDJ673]

I haven't pushed any changes here, but I have gotten a little bit done. Firstly, GetUptime() has been rewritten to parse /proc/uptime, and has been tested to work on NetBSD 9.0. I've been rewriting GetRamUsage() to be more flexible, as to fix issue #3. This will eventually support BSD, but my most recent push on my git server gives bad numbers due to differences in how memory is calculated. I put the clone url in #3 if you want to check out that code.

Upstream has had some updates, I do want to merge those in and try to push up some of my changes once I clean up the git history a bit.

[polluks]

Some progress...