[fpc-devel] The future of fpmake

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 21:19 +0200, Darius Blaszyk wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >> On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:31 PM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> - managing debug/release builds (also cross-compiling)
> >>> 
> >>> What is failing in the current system for this ?
> >> 
> >> I was thinking to be able to do something like :
> >> 
> >>> fpmake build debug
> >> 
> >> This will add some debug options to the build process. Also it should be possible to create a custom build profile.
> > 
> > And how would you do this ?
> > 
> > I don't want to complicate fpmake unnecessarily.
> Improve the command line paring algorithm. It should check if there is something behind the build command line option. If so then it is a named build profile. In fpmake you could check the TDefaults.Profile property to determine which options to add.

I step in too late to avoid some long discussions, but here I go: This
feature is already there. When you use fpmake directly: -f, if you use
fppkg (what I would recommend): fppkg -c.

When I want to do a cross-build I can do:

fppkg build -c win32 
fppkg build -c i386-linux
fppkg build -c 244 (use another compiler-version)
fppkg build -c debug (well, not cross, but debug-information...)

Use 'fppkg listsettings'. It shows which configuration-file it uses, and
where you can store your custom configuration-files. (Or 'profiles', if
you like that term)

Joost.