[fpc-devel]Re: Linux/PPC port of FPC working + others

[Florian Klaempfl]

Balogh, Karoly (Charlie/iNQ) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03.05.25., Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm very happy I can announce that for the first time, yesterday a 
>>"make cycle" worked under Linux/PPC! This means that compiler was able 
>>to compile the RTL and itself, then recompile the RTL and itself using 
>>the compiler created in the previous step and then repeat this process 
>>once more (and the two last compiler binaries are equal). This means 
>>that the code generator can be considered fairly stable (since the 
>>compiler is 120000+ lines of code and the RTL is also quite big (I 
>>don't know how big though).
> 
> 
> Hey, great news! And where to download it? :) Any unofficial snapshot 
> or stg? ;) Since i just got a PMac8500/AV for free with some 604e/200 
> inside, and Debian 3.0r1 on it, so i wanted to try FPC/PPC out, but i 
> was not able to find it on ftp.freepascal.org. Okay, i can CVS it down, 
> and cross-compile with a Linux/x86 box, but i'm so lazy... So can i
> have a compiled executable/rtl at least for my further experiments? :) 
> 

I can send you a linux/ppc compiler executable (~500kB bzip2ed), 
creating an rtl with it is a matter of make if you've cvs checked out, 
just tell me an address :)