• EleBBS

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Shurato on Saturday, February 14, 2026 17:16:37
    Re: Re: Door Games
    By: Shurato to Nightfox on Sat Feb 14 2026 03:16 pm

    It's Pascal.

    I did a search online, and Free Pascal Compiler & Lazarus (IDE) come up for Pascal compilers. Maybe that's worth trying out, to build EleBBS on Linux.

    Nightfox
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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Nightfox on Monday, February 16, 2026 18:34:00

    Re: Re: Door Games
    By: Shurato to Nightfox on Sat Feb 14 2026 03:16 pm

    It's Pascal.

    I did a search online, and Free Pascal Compiler & Lazarus (IDE) come up for Pascal compilers. Maybe that's worth trying out, to build EleBBS on Linux.

    The current binaries were compiled with free pascal. I honestly have no idea where to start. The source is on github. I can't find any instructions.

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  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to Shurato on Sunday, February 22, 2026 14:47:33
    Hiya,

    I have been playing with the sources a long time ago, to change a bit of the look and feel (prompt and filelisting). I found elebbs very stable for up/download at that time.

    But concerning compiling, look in the baseinc directory. There are some config files for compiler options, including some instructions. I am not a programmer at all and I was able to compile the sources ... :)

    Good luck.


    Re: Re: Door Games
    By: Shurato to Nightfox on Sat Feb 14 2026 03:16 pm
    It's Pascal.
    I did a search online, and Free Pascal Compiler & Lazarus (IDE) come for Pascal compilers. Maybe that's worth trying out, to build EleBBS Linux.

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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to Shurato on Sunday, February 22, 2026 09:15:52
    Hey Shurato!

    On Mon, Feb 16 2026 12:34:00 -0600, you wrote:

    The current binaries were compiled with free pascal. I honestly
    have no idea where to start. The source is on github. I can't find
    any instructions.

    How about here, which was the first place that stuck out to me (basically anything with "build" in it) when loading the github page:

    https://github.com/mbek/elebbs/tree/master/elebbs/builddoc

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Accession on Sunday, February 22, 2026 12:39:00

    * In a message originally to Shurato, Accession said:

    Gecko/20100101Thunderbird/140.7.2 Hey Shurato!

    On Mon, Feb 16 2026 12:34:00 -0600, you wrote:

    The current binaries were compiled with free pascal. I honestly have
    no idea where to start. The source is on github. I can't find any instructions.

    How about here, which was the first place that stuck out to me (basically anything with "build" in it) when loading the github page:

    https://github.com/mbek/elebbs/tree/master/elebbs/builddoc

    I'll try again. The last time I tried that, the directory structures didn't match the instructions.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Shurato on Sunday, February 22, 2026 14:10:34
    Re: EleBBS
    By: Shurato to Nightfox on Mon Feb 16 2026 06:34 pm

    I did a search online, and Free Pascal Compiler & Lazarus (IDE) come up
    for Pascal compilers. Maybe that's worth trying out, to build EleBBS on
    Linux.

    The current binaries were compiled with free pascal. I honestly have no idea where to start. The source is on github. I can't find any instructions.

    I haven't used Pascal before, but would a different Pascal compiler not work?

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Nightfox on Sunday, February 22, 2026 19:56:29

    I haven't used Pascal before, but would a different Pascal compiler not wor

    If you use something else you would need to convert it. Not all pascal code is the same.

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