<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 15 Jan 2013, at 14:14, Tomas Hajny wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Well, this last statement is probably worth a slight extension - in<br>general, the three basic options for getting the starting compiler binary<br>are:<br></span></span></blockquote>[...]<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">2) Get a bootstrap compiler binary for your platform (e.g.<br><a href="ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/)">ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/)</a>.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>That should only be done if all else fails, because building with only a compiler binary available can easily fail for a variety of reasons.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonas</div></body></html>