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[Kevin]

I have recently moved FTN95 Express from Win7 to Win10 and get the following:

00538da8 allocate_constant_entity(<ptr>structÄconstant_entity) [+0056]
005355e6 inst_memref(void) [+0373]
00535f3b send_instruction(<ptr>structÄpending_instruction) [+1a9b]
0053500f complete_emit(void) [+0250]
00534bb5 emitr(enumÄmachine_instruction,enumÄcpu_register) [+002a]
0047a60d do_function_top(<ptr>structÄtree_record) [+0603]
0051e1aa code_generator(<ref>structÄtree_ptr) [+2022]
00416e11 end_function(int) [+10f0]

from the source:

Program hello
I=1
Stop
End

I get the following in the CMD prompt:

[FTN95/Win32 Ver. 5.40.0 Copyright (c) Silverfrost Ltd 1993-2009]
0002) i=1
WARNING - Variable I has been given a value but never used

A 0 byte obj. file and no EXE.

Same story from the IDE.
Any ideas anyone ?

Thanks,
Kevin

[PaulLaidler]

I don't think that you can do anything with this other than to update to the latest FTN95 and salflibc.dll.

[Kevin]

So as the latest version for Express mentioned on your site is still 5.40 which I tried, are you saying that I will have to purchase a full version of FTN95 to work under Win10 ?

[mecej4]

The current download of FTN95 Personal will give you the V 8.05 compiler, which you may try on your code and then decide what to do next.

[Kevin]

OK, i'll give that a try. Thanks.

[John-Silver]

Since 2013, a plugin is present inside FTN95 which allows VS 2012 (and presumeably earlier versions ?) to use FTN95
I found this by chance in the KBase here:-
http://forums.silverfrost.com/viewtopic.php?t=2586

This explains why some users have been successful in using the FREE VS 2013 community edition with FTN95.

Since FTN95 Express uses a) a cut-down VS shell b) as mentioned above V5.4 compiler hardwired into it , it is really obsolete imo and the above combination of VS Community 2013 (or a full edition up to v2012) plus the very latest FTN95 v8.05 personal) would appear to be 'the way to go' for VS integration.
However, documentation to ths effect is still lacking , and as such I may be wrong (but I don't think I am).
The lack of a precise, complete documentation is why I haven't personally tried the combination a) because I don't want to get into an inwxtricable loop like I did just trying to install Express on my machine some time ago b) I'm mybe just too old !

It has to be said that FTN95 has it's own IDE in Plato, so I can understand the reluctance to promote too much the use of VS from that point of view, but there must be quite a few VS users out there (although the majority of them on the list are conspicuous by their silence maybe) and a good software caters for some kind of crossover , like Silverfrost does - but documentation is needed on how to set it up painlessly !!!
(... Dismounts from his documentation crusader's unisysle for the day and disappears into the sunset/sunrise )

[JohnCampbell]

Hi all,

At hours before midnight I finally took up the Windows 10 offer on 2 of my pc's.
Both upgraded without any apparent problems.
My notebook with Win8.1 upgraded to Windows 10 Home
My desktop with Win 7_64 upgraded to Windows 10 Pro

Based on Eddie's post last year on upgrading to Win 10 (can't find it) I was expecting to have a number of updates loaded, but it has now been 18 hours and there have been no further updates since the initial upgrade, which included a few restarts.

Is this a false dawn or has the upgrade gone seamlessly ? FTN95 /64 appears to be working.

John

[davidb]

Everything should be fine John as the updates are Cumulative (i.e. contain all individual updates).

You should expect the Anniversary update on both machines on or just after 2 August.
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