Am 30.12.2018 um 14:58 schrieb Olivier Coursière via fpc-devel: > Some background : > > Haiku currently supports two compilers toolchains with two sets of libraries > and ABI for its 32 bits flavor : > - gcc 2 for BeOS compatibility > - gcc 4 (or above : currently 7.3) for newer libraries like Qt (and Lazarus). > > The default gcc toolchain can be changed using a command line : setarch > currently accepting x86_gcc2 or x86. > Once this is done, the only practical difference from Freepascal point of > view is that the search patch should be > adapted to use the rights libraries according to the context. > > A few years ago, i have open the bug 26486 > (https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26486) with a first proposal that > was too hacky to be committed. Since then, i have made another proposition > involving a new command line switch to let > specifying the set of search paths when targeting gcc4. This alternative > proposal got unnoticed since then.
To me, the -WH approach looks reasonable. IMO it can be integrated into trunk. > > I am currently looking at packaging Lazarus for Haiku and it would simplify > the process a lot in our Haikuports system > (our equivalent of Ports in FreeBSD). > > So here is the proposal : > > I propose to add a -WH option that can accept a "gcc4" parameter to specify > the alternative option. This is similar to > others -W options used to specify the kind of applications on the same > platform (like -WA or -WG for Windows). > It would simplify lazarus building under Haiku using a command like that : > > make LCL_PLATFORM=qt OPT="-WHgcc4" > > Do you think that kind of options could be upstreamed ? If so, i can update > the patch to match current sources and maybe > use the same option names as setarch to specify the platform. > > If not, i can still patch freepascal sources before packaging freepascal for > Haiku through our haikuports system. But it > would be, in my opinion, less practical on the long term. > > Or maybe someone will come up with a better idea to handle that kind of > problems ? > > What do you think about this proposal ? > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
