Send fpc-devel mailing list submissions to To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to You can reach the person managing the list at When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of fpc-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Issue with Compiling FPC and MacOS Big Sur (Joubert Nel) 2. Re: Issue with Compiling FPC and MacOS Big Sur (Jonas Maebe) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 08:52:15 -0800 From: Joubert Nel To: Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Issue with Compiling FPC and MacOS Big Sur Message-ID: < > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I've run into the same issue, but under different circumstances. In some sense, my scenario is simpler: I'm not compiling FPC, just compiling my own project. Able to work around it for my particular case and thought I'd share in case it helps others. SCENARIO When I have an "fpc.cfg" file in the directory in which I compile my project, I get: ld: library not found for -lc An error occurred while linking lox.pas(33,17) Error: Error while linking lox.pas(33,17) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode When I delete "fpc.cfg" the problem goes away. ATTEMPTED SOLUTION: reinstall xcode command line tools & fpc compiler 1. remove xcode command line tools sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/ 2. reinstall xcode command line tools sudo xcode-select --install sudo xcodebuild -license accept 3. reinstall latest FPC for macOS from https://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/macosx.html However, the problem persists. SOLUTION: not ideal, fine for me When I delete the "fpc.cfg" file in my compilation directory, the problem goes away. The same error occurs if I have an ".fpc.cfg" file in my home directory so I avoid that too. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/attachments/20201224/2f0e5fc4/attachment-0001.htm > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:12:58 +0100 From: Jonas Maebe To: Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Issue with Compiling FPC and MacOS Big Sur Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On 24/12/2020 17:52, Joubert Nel via fpc-devel wrote: > When I delete the "fpc.cfg" file in my compilation directory, the > problem goes away. > The same error occurs if I have an ".fpc.cfg" file in my home directory > so I avoid that too. Add the following line at the start of your custom config: #include /etc/fpc.cfg Anything you add after that statement will override the default settings from that global configuration, but you'll still have the settings that you need from it (like the sysroot path to the SDK). Jonas ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel ------------------------------ End of fpc-devel Digest, Vol 200, Issue 18 ******************************************