[fpc-devel] The status of fpmake ?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

What's the status of 'fpmake'. Can it already be used for our custom 
written software? As a command line build system, instead of Makefile's? 
  I'm using FPC 2.2.1 at the moment.

I'm trying to use fpmake with a simple single unit command line 
application. The applications in Linux only, but will later be for 
Windows as well. I would also like the Linux compiled executable to have 
a '.elf' extension. And when compiled under Windows, the default '.exe' 
extension.

Below is what I make so far.  I can't even manage to compile the 
fpmake.pas unit. :-(

-----------[ fpmake.pas ]-------------
program fpmake;

uses
   fpmkunit;

var
   t: TTarget;

begin
   with Installer do
   begin
     Targets.DefaultOS := [linux]; // it's a linux only app
     t := Targets.AddUnit('mydialer'); // main program unit mydialer.pas
     Run;
   end;
end.
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Errors when compiled using: fpc fpmake.pas
---------------------------
graemeg at graemeg:dialer$ fpc fpmake.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.1 [2008/04/21] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2008 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling fpmake.pas
fpmake.pas(12,12) Error: Identifier not found "Targets"
fpmake.pas(13,17) Error: Identifier not found "Targets"
fpmake.pas(18) Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /opt/fpc_2.2.1/bin/ppc386 returned an error exitcode (normal if 
you did not specify a source file to be compiled)
---------------------------


Errors when compiled using: fppkg build
---------------------------
graemeg at graemeg:dialer$ fppkg build
The FPC Package tool encountered the following error:
Could not find package "rtl"
---------------------------


Can anybody help me here... I've read the fpmake wiki page and use one 
of it's examples as my starting point, but no luck yet.


Regards,
   - Graeme -


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