(I had hoped for somebody else to ask this silly question, and waited some weeks but as nobody did, I need to do it myself)

The svn sources request to be compiled by a v2.6.2 compiler, which I don't have, as I only "work" with the svn results, which I compiled with a v2.6.0 fpc up to recently. I have the "starting compiler" in a dedicated folder and don't have an installed package for same.

Can I just copy some files in there to get the starting compiler v2.6.2 ? Where can I find them ? (Searching the wiki for "starting compiler" does not find a page containing this text.)
(This is a 32 Bit x86 Linux desktop.)

-Michael

There are bootstrap compiler for 2.6.2 here:

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/bootstrap/

Henry

Henry Vermaak wrote

There are bootstrap compiler for 2.6.2 here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/bootstrap

Works.

Thanks a lot !
-Michael

Henry Vermaak wrote

There are bootstrap compiler for 2.6.2 here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/bootstrap/

BTW.:

Silly me did not remember the obvious term "bootstrap". Otherwise I would easily have found the wiki page.

It would be nice to modify the error message that says "starting compiler" to mention "bootstrap compiler".

Thanks,
-Michael