On 2022-06-24 09:02, Wolfgang Hubert via fpc-pascal wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,
thank you for your thoughts and suggestions on this topic.
Tomas Hajny wrote:
I may be wrong, but I believe that the original poster meant that he
was using a "regular" (32-bit) version of WinXP on x86 and wanted to
cross-compile from there to aarch64-win64.
Yes, you are right. I have a XP machine as well as Windows 10, both
32-bit and 64-bit. So one of these should be the host. But it must be
a cross-compiler for the ARM64 target, since I cannot operate a ARM64
machine running Windows. It is not accessible to me. It is a bit like
the hen/egg-problem.
I am using fpc 3.2.2 on my XP machine (32-bit) successfully for
building 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs for Windows x86/x64. My goal is to do
the same for the ARM64 target.
Now I think of porting my pascal code to C++, installing MS Visual
Studio and compiling it there.
I am not a compiler compiler and will not be able to finalize or test
a cross-compiler before using it.
I believe that we can help you with resolution with FPC if you're
interested, it isn't that difficult after all. Building a trunk (main)
compiler, rtl and packages is matter of several rather simple commands
if you already have your FPC 3.2.2 installation, plus installation of an
external package (LLVM). All of it rather feasible. Yes, you may
possibly encounter some issues with the current port to this target
(aarch64-win64), but I'm sure there are others willing to help with that
part as well if you report such issues. Just let me/us know if you want
to continue that way, I'm willing to provide more specific directions.
Tomas
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