[fpc-devel] darwin - rtl include files

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

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 see also (the bit outdated) docs I made while working on the unix rtl: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

All info you need is in the .ppu file ? Function/Method names, arguments
etc ?

Michael.