[fpc-devel] intel Mac

[Jonas Maebe]

On 29 mei 2006, at 23:34, Giulio Bernardi wrote:

>> 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.

That is what the current svn versions of the compiler do.

> 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.

Yes, I've also been thinking about that.

> 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...)

lipo


Jonas