[fpc-devel] darwin - rtl include files

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 16:11:43 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 see also (the bit outdated) docs I made while working on the unix rtl: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.

Huh? Can you give an example?

Mattias