[fpc-devel] (Re)compiling FPC or is there something like fpc.bpg?

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 19:32 +0300, Adem wrote:
> On 2010-07-23 4:41 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > In our previous episode, Joost van der Sluis said:
> >> I think that fpmake.pp is exactly what you want. Only it doesn't work
> >> fully yet.
> >>
> >> If fpmake works, we don't need make anymore.
> > It is not, since it requires an installed RTL + fpmkunit to create the first
> > fpmake. This is the bit handled by the still to be created bootstrap
> > scripts.
> What I am aiming is to, first, get the information in each 'fpmake.pp' 
> file into one single 'Installer' object.
> 
> Then, from that object, I'll try to generate a project file to be 
> compiled under Lazarus.
> 
> It looks doable, except that, each 'fpmake.pp' file is a project with 
> information such as below.
> 
> program  fpmake;
>    uses  fpmkunit;
>    Var
>      P: TPackage;
>      T: TTarget;
>    begin
>      With Installerdo
>      begin
>        P := AddPackage('my-nice-program');
>        P.OSes  :=[win32,openbsd,netbsd,freebsd,darwin,linux];
>        T := P.Targets.AddUnit('myunit');
>        T.ResourceStrings  :=True;
>        T := P.Targets.AddUnit('myprogram');
>        T.Dependencies.Add('myunit');
>        Run;
>      end;
> 
>    end.
> 
> This is, unfortunately, less than usable for my purposes.
> 
> What I would like is something like this:
> 
> With Installerdo
> begin
>    P := AddPackage('my-nice-program');
>    P.OSes  :=[win32,openbsd,netbsd,freebsd,darwin,linux];
>    T := P.Targets.AddUnit('myunit');
>    T.ResourceStrings  :=True;
>    T := P.Targets.AddUnit('myprogram');
>    T.Dependencies.Add('myunit');
>    Run;
> end;
> 
> in a file called, say, 'fpmake.pp.inc'.
> 
> Then, I could simply combine them into a single unit.
> 
> Obviously, a little more work is involved but this is the gist of it.
> 
> Now, what I'd like to know is what generates those 'fpmake.pp' files, so 
> that I might take a shot altering it to generate 'fpmake.pp.inc' files 
> the way I wanted.

I don't know what you want, but fpmake *is* an installer. Run ./fpmake
--install. (Or better fppkg --install) If you want to use the fpmake
files as an include-file, look how the same thing is done in the
packages-directory of fpc.

Joost