Is it possible to cross compile a Pascal program from Intel OS X to Intel Linux using fpc? I see the -Tlinux option in the docs, but I get

/usr/local/bin/fpc -Tlinux hw.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.2 [2008/08/03] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2008 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling hw.pas
Fatal: Can't find unit system used by HelloWorld
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled)

when I try to use it (I have no problem compiling native code).

Chas. Owens wrote

Is it possible to cross compile a Pascal program from Intel OS X to Intel Linux using fpc?

Yes, but you first need
a) cross-compiled GNU binutils for targeting Linux b) compile the FPC units for the Linux target

From a previous mail (to fpc-pascal):

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You have compile and install the GNU binutils for Linux/i386 (or Linux/ powerpc) by downloading the binutils sources, unpacking them, and executing the following commands in the resulting directory: ./configure --target=i386-linux-gnu
make
sudo make install

(use "--target=powerpc-linux-gnu" for powerpc)

Then compile the rtl and all other units for this target ("make CPU_TARGET=i386 OS_TARGET=linux all" or so in the top level FPC directory). See http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf for more information.
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Jonas

Hi

If you use fink for the installation of fpc, you can install everything you need with

fink install fpc-i386-linux

then compiling with -Tlinux should work.

this installs also the linux binutils as dependencies. I haven't tested it heavily, so I am interested in feedback.

Best wishes - Michael

Well, it worked for my hello world program.