[fpc-devel] SymbianOS port

[Vincent Snijders]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1/25/07, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> This is rather useless imo, even a cross cycle is far away for symbian.
>> Something like
>> make arm
>> in the compiler dir and
>> make FPC=c:\fpc\compiler\ppcarm -XP$FPCTARGET-
>> in the rtl/symbian dir should be enough
> 
> Actually I´m building for i386-symbian, which is the emulator.
> 
> I tryed make i386 on the compiler directory, and next:
> 
> C:\Programas\fpc21\rtl\symbian>make clean 
> FPC=c:\Programas\fpc21\compiler\ppc386
> .exe
> make: Nothing to be done for `clean'.
> 
> Could you expain more about why my previous attempt (make clean all on
> fpc dir) was wrong?

Not wrong, just overly complicated (or a too big step).

> 
> The emulator for UIQ 3 uses normal win32 pe executables. I am trying
> to generate that using i386-symbian target.

So you don't need a cross compiler, ppc386 can be used. You do need a symbian RTL.

Vincent