[fpc-devel] Win64 FPC is in wrong download location

[Jonas Maebe]

On 04 May 2010, at 19:40, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> I don't know where to add this exactly in this thread, but the win64 version of Lazarus includes a native win64 version of the compiler. It is done because I think that to make sure it can compile Lazarus correctly, it has to be able to compile itself correct and create a running executable.

Why do you think that a cross-compiler would not be able to create a runnable lazarus or compiler executable? (I'm not sure what the "itself" refers to in the above sentence) And in case you mean the compiler: under which circumstances does lazarus try to recompile the fpc source tree? (its makefiles or "build lazarus" commands at least don't do that, afaik)

The only caveat I know of is that the top-level FPC makefile does not include support for bootstrapping using a cross-compiler (it is possible to to work around it manually, but that's not very nice). Of course, since a regular i386 compiler is also available, that one can always be used to build a new cross-compiler (and native compiler).


Jonas