Is Indy 9 compatible with Lazarus/Free Pascal

Question

I'm doing feasibility analysis about porting a delphi 7 app to Free Pascal. Does Indy 9 work on Free Pascal? Do you need a special build or just the latest Indy 9 from Indy's svn repository? Or would I have to upgrade to Indy 10 to get the app working in Free Pascal at all? It appears quite clear that Indy 10 would work, but the answer for Indy 9 appears a bit more murky, and I can't find anything remotely recent on the matter.

Answer 1

In 2005, I patched Indy 9 to work with FPC. It is only for Windows 32-bit though, and afterwards I migrated to Indy 10, so the result was not maintained.

I searched a bit and the main port seems to be http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/indy/indy9forfpc.zip

A few months later I added this archive http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/indy/indy9.zip which I suspect is my general indy9 working dir, and may contain some demoes not in the former archive.

I hope the not maintained since 2005 says enough. IOW, use Indy 10.

Answer 2

Indy 9 does not officially support FPC. On the other hand, I don't know if anyone has ever tried getting it to work with FPC, either. You could try creating a FPC project, add the source files to it, and see what happens.