Javier Ros wrote 7 lines
>From the manuals it seems that fpc is itself a croscompiler.
I would like to generate win32 executables from linux using v1.0 of the
fpc compiler.
Is it posible?
It is possible, I did it for myself some time ago, but it would be nice if one of the other core developers could repeat the necessary changes, as I've forgot them for myself :) Especially as I wanted to test some things on Windows for myself, but Linux is my primary development platform. The things I can remember can be found downwards.
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At this moment I'm using the -Twin32 directive, but ppc386-Twin32
helloworld.pp complains about syswin32 unit missing.
So I supouse that I have to install? (generate?) the win32 units. and
thats all?
No, you need to have the assembler, linker etc. for Win32 installed. There are rumours that a cross-compiling package is available somewhere, but I never found it... But you can compile the GNU linker and similar tools for cross-compiling/linking for yourself, there are instructions for doing this in the according package. (binutils, I think). But be careful, the assembler must have the name 'asw', and so on.
(The following stuff may be outdated:)
Another problem is that FPC itself doesn't have the COFF writer included in the Linux version. When compiling a new compiler for yourself, undefine some symbols by appending "-uNOAG386INT -uNOAG386BIN" to the command line. I.e. do something like this:
make OPT="-uNOAG386INT -uNOAG386BIN" clean all install
But as I would had to try this out for myself within the next few days anyway, perhaps we can find a working solution even today. I'll post another mail then...
- Sebastian
