[fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
Hi list, On ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/ there are a lot of bootstrap compilers, but I miss a x86 Windows bootstrap compiler. Would it be possible to upload one, or can I use the 2.4.2 compiler to compile FPC 2.6.x/2.7.x sources on Windows? Thanks, Reinier _

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > On ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/ there are a > lot of bootstrap compilers, but I miss a x86 Windows bootstrap compiler. It is the responsibility of the platform maintainers to upload that. That being said, for windows it

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-1-2012 13:01, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >> On ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/ there are a >> lot of bootstrap compilers, but I miss a x86 Windows bootstrap compiler. > > It is the responsibility of the platform mainta

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > > It is the responsibility of the platform maintainers to upload that. > > > > That being said, for windows it makes less sense than for other platforms, > > since the release also contains (possibly updated) binutils. > Ok. I'm wondering whether

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-1-2012 13:22, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >>> It is the responsibility of the platform maintainers to upload that. >>> >>> That being said, for windows it makes less sense than for other platforms, >>> since the release also contains (possibly

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > >> binutils as the ones available at > >> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/binw32/... > > > > _Probably_ the same. But the ones from 2.6.0 are the _guaranteed_ working > > ones. > > > That's what I suspected. So when buildin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-1-2012 13:33, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >> That's what I suspected. So when building a Win32 system from scratch, >> I'd have to either extract the files from the installer or perhaps get >> them from a stable branch like: >> http://svn.free

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > > > > No, tags/release_2_6_0 would then be the one. What is currently already in > > fixed could theoretically already have been changed for 2.6.2 > > > Thanks, Marco; I thought 2.6.1 fixes would be stability improvements to > 2.6. True. But bo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Vincent Snijders
Op 27 januari 2012 14:00 heeft Marco van de Voort het volgende geschreven: > One can try to cut corners, but that will only end up having to install the > release anyway at the first hickup. I'd expect the utils in fpcbuild/trunk to be able to build fpc/trunk better than the release ones, otherwi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 27-1-2012 14:00, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >>> >>> No, tags/release_2_6_0 would then be the one. What is currently already in >>> fixed could theoretically already have been changed for 2.6.2 >>> >> Thanks, Marco; I thought 2.6.1 fixes would be

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Vincent Snijders said: > > One can try to cut corners, but that will only end up having to install the > > release anyway at the first hickup. > > I'd expect the utils in fpcbuild/trunk to be able to build fpc/trunk > better than the release ones, otherwise they should not

Re: [fpc-pascal] Request for Win32 bootstrap compiler on ftp.freepascal.org/

2012-01-27 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Fri, January 27, 2012 14:10, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Op 27 januari 2012 14:00 heeft Marco van de Voort > het volgende geschreven: >> One can try to cut corners, but that will only end up having to install >> the >> release anyway at the first hickup. > > I'd expect the utils in fpcbuild/trunk