"Alfred" wrote
After a successful install (with fpclazup) of FPC/Lazarus 64bit on an
Odroid-C2 running Arch Linux 64 bit, I have a few questions.
The initial (bootstrap) compiler was build by cross-compiling (trunk)
from Win32 to Aarch64.
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Only trunk supports aarch64.
So, bootstrap version is 3.1.1. But trunk may only be build by 3.0.0.
Questions/remarks:
1: As maintainer of fpc(laz)up, I am in need of a public available
bootstrap compiler for aarch64.
2: The version check should be suppressed for aarch64 (atm fpc[laz]up
does suppress the check by itself).
Starting trunk's top-level make with the correct options (crossall, CPU_TARGET, CROSSOPT fot the target flags, etc) and a 3.0.0 should already result in a native compiler for Aarch64-linux, as the Makefile already does what you described here (compiling a cross compiler first and then a native compiler). At the end there should be a ppcrossaarch64.exe and a ppcaarch64 (no .exe!) [Note: I don't know whether the compiler suffix is really aarch64, as I've never worked with it yet].
There won't be any bootstrap compiler however until the next major version containing the new platform is released as trunk is a moving target (it can happen from one revision to the next that trunk can no longer be compiled by the previous revision).
3: Some makefiles of Lazarus where not (yet) able to compile for aarch64
(as I remember correctly: main and lcl/interfaces had no aarch64-linux target).
You should raise this issue either on the Lazarus mailing list or the bug tracker.
Regards,
Sven
