Henry Vermaak schrieb:
2) An unqualified reference (PP=mypp) most proably fails - where exactly
does Make search for that compiler?
See Makefile from line 109 onwards. It first looks for fpc(.exe) on the
path. If it finds that, it gets the real compiler exe with -PB. If
fpc(.exe) isn't found, it tries to find ppc386(.exe) on the path.
I'm not very familiar with the make syntax :-(
Why ppc386, on a 64 bit platform?
Should I copy or add a link, from ppc386.exe to ppcx64.exe?
5) A matter of convenience: Currently the easiest way to get both FPC
and Lazarus up (on a Windows system) is the installation of Lazarus
0.9.28, including FPC 2.2.4 and all required build tools. That's the
latest Lazarus/FPC distribution, available for almost all platforms,
that runs off the shelf. Unfortunately the 2.2.4 compiler can not
compile the 2.5 sources, so that another binary must be installed. In
the worst case multiple (make and install) steps are required, until the
2.5 sources can be compiled by a 2.4 version - including all the RTL
stuff. Can we get some more version compatibility?
On Windows, I usually install latest fpc release, then I check out
lazarus and build it. That's pretty simple, no?
Installing the latest fpc release is anything but simple :-(
The (currently) last problem is the new fpc.exe, which assumes a 32 bit
target, and tries to invoke the (non existing) ppc386.exe. The old 2.2.4
fpc.exe, that came with Lazarus 0.9.28, seems to work properly. But I
don't want to test more, instead I simply copied the new ppcx64.exe to
ppc386.exe :-)
DoDi
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