[fpc-pascal] how to compile (PWU) project from command line

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

I feel quite embarrassed asking this. :)  I am clearly a victim of
relying on programming tools to much (Lazarus) and forgot how to use
the compiler directly from the command line.

I downloaded PWU 1.6 and want to try some of the extra examples.  Lets
take the code highligher example (pas to html converter).

Inside the /hiliter directory there is some source code (*.pas) and a
project/program file (*.dpr) and a fpc.cfg file as show below:

graemeg at pluto:hiliter$ cat fpc.cfg
-Fu../compact-utils/
-Fu../tokenizer/FakeObject/dyn/
-Fu../tokenizer/FakeObject/
-Fu../../main/
-Fu../../extras/strwrap1/
-Fu../../extras/rapid-html/


I have my FPC 2.1.3 bin directory in my path, so can execute ppc386
from anywhere. I tried to compile the hiliter program using the
following, but without success.

  ppc386 pastohtm.dpr

graemeg at pluto:hiliter$ ppc386 pastohtm.dpr
pastohtm.dpr(16,1) Fatal: Can't find unit System
Fatal: Compilation aborted


Now I have a fpc.cfg in my /etc directory which is used when I compile
FPC itself or Lazarus. That works fine. So how do I get ppc386 to
combine the /etc/fpc.cfg and the ./fpc.cfg so all the relevant search
paths are set and the program can compile?
So is there something different I need to do first, like create a
Makefile or something. The hiliter example doesn't come with a
Makefile or makefile.fpc


Many thanks in advance,
  - Graeme -