[fpc-other] Re: Which operating system is used to develop FPC ?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 27 Feb 2008, at 11:19, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> No, Windows is an easier cross compile target. Unix is simply not  
> cross
> compilation friendly. Just try to cross compile from unix to unix or
> even worse, from a new unix (e.g. Solaris 10) to an older one (e.g.
> Solaris 9) of the same flavour.

It depends on the vendor. For Mac OS X you have cross compilation SDKs  
delivered by default, where you' basically pass "-isysroot /Developer/ 
SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk" to the linker and that's it.

It's true that it's nice that you don't need the actual dll's to  
compile stuff for Windows though.


Jonas