[fpc-devel] Where to add mksymbian

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On 7/3/07, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > I thought it was only needed to build FPC ?
> 
> No, it's necessary to build software for symbian os.
> 
> The way I designed it you can't simply type: fpc -Tsymbian mysoftware.pas
> 
> And expect to have a symbian executable.
> 
> This command fails to give enougth information for a real build, which
> includes the UIDs, if you want to build for the emulator or the real
> devide, which sdk you are using, where the sdk is located, etc, etc.
> 
> Because symbian has many unique things I decided to create a external
> build tool, which just uses fpc to generate assembler. The other
> option would be adding lot's of symbian specific options on fpc, but I
> didn't like this idea.

I think you made a right choice :-)

Michael.