[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Henry Vermaak]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:08:29PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
> > > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they
> > > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools
> > > we were using, and set up everything in MSYS.
> > 
> > At least the mingw binutils are still maintained:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/binutils-2.22. 
> > The same goes for "make" (FPC 2.6.x has problems with make 3.82 though,
> > not specific to Windows/mingw) and gdb at least.  Which abandoned tools do
> > you mean?
> 
> Sven already replied, but roughly  in the coreutils package. (the former
> findutils and diffutils iirc)

Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils?
Or do they have some limitation?

Last time I built fpc in windows, I didn't use the tools shipped with
fpc at all.  I built it inside an msys terminal (with patched fpc
Makefiles).

Henry