Cant compile GH2- Ubuntu lucid lynx

[ChairmanPoo]

I installed the requisite libraries as per the wiki's words, and tried to compile following the stated method, yet I get this:

$ fpc gearhead
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.0-2 [2010/03/06] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2009 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling gearhead
gearhead(1,1) Fatal: illegal character "''" ($7F)
gearhead(1,1) Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled)

Any ideas?

Edit: just for the record: FPC version:

Free Pascal Compiler version 2.4.0-2 [2010/03/06] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2009 by Florian Klaempfl

[RadonPlasma]

No clue.  I was going to suggest a formatting issue, except that searching through a copy of gearhead.pas with XVI32 revealed no bytes with value 0x7F.  Do you have any experience with Pascal?  You might try compiling a 'hello world' program just to see if the compiler is willing to work with you at all.  If it isn't, then you'd be wanting the folks from the fpc community.

[ChairmanPoo]

I did sort of compile Gearhead 1. The end result didn't work, but it didnt give that "wrong character error" either

[Daemonward]

Error: /usr/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled)

Any ideas?

Did you make sure that you were in the GH2 directory when you typed 'fpc gearhead'?

EDIT: If you copied and pasted 'fpc gearhead' from the wiki, some strange formatting character may have been copied with it, try typing the command instead.