[fpc-devel] darwin - rtl include files

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:51:43 +0200 (CEST)
> marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:
>
>>> marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> I guess FPC_USE_LIBC is disabled for this target,
>>>> ...
>>>>> Where is the mistake?
>>>>
>>>> See above. Jonas choose to only implement FPC_USE_LIBC for Darwin.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> AFAIK darwin has a libc, but FPC does not provide a unit for it.
>>
>> FPC doesn't provide a unit for libc at all. BaseUnix/Unix etc define what
>> you get, and how that unit is implemented is not defined, dynlibs the same
>> for shared libs etc.
>>
>> In practice there are two basic implementations; syscalls and getting
>> access to the needed functions by linking to libc.
>>
>>> Right? And the FPC_USE_LIBC is set for all rtl sources under darwin.
>>
>> Yes. Note that it can also be set for Linux and FreeBSD (though that might
>> require some minimal maintainance)
>>
>>> Right?
>>
>> Yes. But I still have no clue what you are exactly looking for. Maybe I
>> could give you more direct hints if you said what you actually need :-)
>>
>> see also (the bit outdated) docs I made while working on the unix rtl:
>> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/unixrtl.pdf
>> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf
>> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/porting.pdf
>>
>>> Is there a somewhere a list of the flags set in the FPC sources?
>>
>> No. Not like that. They often change.
>
> That's exactly my problem.
> How to keep the codetools up2date? How can they find the right include paths
> and unit paths?

IMHO:
Eventually, you'll have to switch to parsing the .ppu files for some parts.

Michael.