Hi, I just thought I kill some time investigating cross compiling from i386-linux to i386-win32 and hada look at the wiki page http://wiki.freepascal.org/Cross_compiling
It seems there is some important thing missing, right at the beginning but I don't know enough about fpcmake to extend the article in a way that explains in a short sentence what fpcmake's actually does (and how it does this) and what options are of interest. Here is what I had installed initially on my Linux-i386 (Xubuntu 11.10) an fpc checkout from the 2.6 fixes branch a lazarus checkout from the trunk For normal compiling (not cross) after updating everything from svn I usually just use in the fpc directory make clean all sudo make install (the fpc.cfg is in /etc and I once created it with the tool that comes with fpc and never touched it since) and in the Lazarus directory make clean lazbuild useride (without install, just run Lazarus directly from there) *** Now I decided to try experimenting with cross compiling to win32, something I have never done before and expected to be very difficult to set up. The only problem I had was the wiki page does not mention with any word that one must first do fpcmake -Ti386-win32 Then it was surprisingly easy: fpcmake -Ti386-win32 make all OS_TARGET=win32 CPU_TARGET=i386 sudo make crossinstall OS_TARGET=win32 CPU_TARGET=i386 and that was all! I have also seen mentioning somewhere the fpc.cfg needs to be edited but my fpc.cfg seemed to already contain the correct $fpctarget macros. Also it seems there is absolutely no additional configuration in Lazarus needed, it just worked out of the box immediately on the first try! All I did was opening a simple project with some database stuff for sqlite that already used to compile and run on windows, I just opened the project and set in the project settings: Code Generation / Target OS: Win32 Build Modes / Macro values: LCLWidgetType: win32 And it immediately worked! It automatically re-compiled all needed LCL and other packages without changing *any* Lazarus setting at all and it created a working LCL windows exe! This is great stuff, I am impressed! I initially prepared for many frustrating hours experimenting and searching little pieces of information from all over the web but instead it just worked immediately! The only thing is the wiki page seems slightly outdated in a few details regarding Linux->Windows cross compile: * missing hint for fpcmake * fpc.cfg probably already ok, no editing here anymore * no Lazarus config change, no new Lazarus profile, no rebuilding of Lazarus anymore maybe this also affects the other cross-compile-combinations (which are certainly more complicated because of the binutils but maybe also became easier), but I don't have enough experience with this to feel confident enough to make changes. Someone else with more routine in cross compiling should do this. Bernd _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal