[fpc-devel] Project building

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Darius Blaszijk wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Darius Blaszijk wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > I'm already thinking a long time about creating a tool similar to ant.
> > > There
> > > is already fpmake which could be used to process information read from
> > > xml.
> > >     
> >
> > fpmake does not process any XML. On the contrary, we plan to get away from
> > any XMl/ini/makefile format - all is done in 100% pascal code.
> >
> >   
> From what I understood from IRC, I thought so. My question then is, how are
> the fpmake.pp files compiled then? Do I need to invoke fppkg to build all of
> them in my sourcetree (separate project). Does this mean that my project is
> treated like a package?

You have 2 options: 

- compile and run fpmake yourself - you don't need fppkg for this.
  This is how it was tested. 

- register your project as a package using fppkg, and then just do a 
  fppkg build yourproject. The latest fppkg sources are now in such
  a state that they actually work.

Michael.