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FPC 3 inclusion for debian/ubuntu?

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Xiangrong Fang

Hi There,

Just curious, will the freshly release FPC 3 be included in the current or next release of debian/ubuntu repository?

Thanks!

Xiangrong Fang
to Jonas Maebe
Jonas Maebe wrote 6 lines
It's already in the Debian experimental repository: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=fpc You will have to ask the Debian/Ubuntu project when they plan to include it in which release.

The experimental repository​

​contains a file
fpc_3.0.0+dfsg-1_all.deb
​which is only 38Kb, and is for "all" architecture.

As a matter of fact, I usually get the latest version of fpc from the download site of Lazarus.

The reason I ask is that I expect to get non-intel architecture (armhf, mips etc.) builds of fpc-3.​

Thanks!

Xiangrong​

Xiangrong Fang
to Xiangrong Fang
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​T​ he experimental repository​ ​contains a file fpc_3.0.0+dfsg-1_all.deb ​which is only 38Kb, and is for "all" architecture. ​Sorry I digged inside and found the actual file. That's a "meta" package.

However, there is no MIPS build. To build fpc executables for MIPS, I have to do cross-compiling?​

Jonas Maebe
to Xiangrong Fang

Xiangrong Fang wrote on Mon, 14 Dec 2015:

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> > ​Sorry I digged inside and found the actual file. That's a "meta" package. However, there is no MIPS build. To build fpc executables for MIPS, I have to do cross-compiling?​

You're right that Debian does not package a MIPS build of FPC. If you want to use it, you'll indeed have to build it yourself through cross-compiling (and/or file a request with Debian to also build and package FPC for MIPS).

Jonas

Juha Manninen
to Xiangrong Fang: However, there is no MIPS build. To build fpc executables for MIPS, I have to do…
Xiangrong Fang wrote
However, there is no MIPS build. To build fpc executables for MIPS, I have to do cross-compiling?

FYI, apparently FPC works with MIPS through cross-compiling but Lazarus does not, based on this:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,30500.msg194153.html MIPS will be important in future. I may get a MIPS gadget myself for testing.

It would be nice to have a maintainer who builds FPC binaries for MIPS. Who volunteers? Maybe you? :)

Juha