Having never used Indy before, or multithreading in any significant
way, I'm trying to develop a simple test application with Indy.
I'm having some basic problems. If I use Indy 10.0.76, then create a
new application, drop a TidTCPServer on a form, create an empty
execute handler, set active to True, start application and then close
it (with no connections made) I get an EInvalidPointer exception in
IdThread.pas (line 348).
I found that the demo applications I tried also throw exceptions when
closed (and no, not the connection closed gracefully one... EAbort,
EAccessViolation, that kind of thing).
So, I tried to install 10.1.5, but that won't install because of a
message about filectrl being used in the package IndySystem50. I
tried for about an hour to get it to intall, but I just can't figure
out the problem. I saw mentions of this in the newsgroups. Some said
the solution was to revert to 10.0.76, but Kudzu said try the latest
development snapshot.
So, I ignored the dire warnings and downloaded that. However, when I
try to compile it, I get a failure in IdSSLOpenSSL.pas saying line too
long (more than 1023 characters) at line 1. I have a feeling this is
to do with unix line endings, but I can't pinpoint the problem.
For now, I've gone back to 10.0.76, but this is proving to be a steep
learning curve! Can anyone clear the fog for me?
