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.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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