[fpc-devel] intel Mac

[Giulio Bernardi]

>
> On 29 May 2006, at 19:39, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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>> Are there any known problems running FPC apps with "Rosetta"?
>
> No, they work perfectly. Only the ppc compiler itself needed some  changes 
> (to tell the assembler and linker to assemble/link ppc  instead of x86 
> code).
>
>> What's the state of the Intel Mac native port?
>
> Also works perfectly :) Testsuite results are similar to Linux/i386.
>
Some time ago I tried a mac intel from a friend of mine... I slightly 
modified fpc 2.0.2 to make it accept a parameter -K
which is similar of -k (that is, -k is "pass an option to the linker" , 
while -K is "pass an option to the assembler") and I
added -K -arch ppc to fpc.cfg. Everything worked perfectly.
I was thinking: -arch parameter is accepted even by pre-os x 10.4 as, so 
ppcppc could always call as with -arch ppc,
while ppc386 could always call as with -arch i386.
Then it would be useful if fpc (not ppc*) could accept a -arch parameter, so 
that one can install both ppcppc and ppc386
and then decide for which target to compile.
This way it could also be easy to create a universal binary (IIRC ld or 
another command has an option to concatenate
a i386 executable and a ppc one to produce a universal binary...)