[fpc-devel] Internal linker for wince

[Vincent Snijders]

Yury Sidorov wrote:
> From: "Florian Klaempfl" <florian at freepascal.org>
> 
>> Yury Sidorov wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I added wince support to internal linker.
>>> Please try it and see if all works fine.
>>> Use -Xi compiler option to enable internal linker.
>>
>>
>> Good job, now the internal assembler :)
> 
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> Internal assembler is a complex task. And I think it is not very 
> critical for wince now, because internal linker does not require 
> libpXXX.a files for smartlinking. Without smartlink libs generation 
> external assembler is fast enough...

Correct me if I am wrong, but having an internal assembler (and a 
internal linker) means you don't need to have arm-wince binutils to 
cross compile to arm-wince anymore.

This would simplify distribution of a Lazarus add-on that would package 
everything needed for creating arm-wince programs on win32. Nevertheless 
adding the binutils to the package is not a big deal.

Vincent.