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

[Brad Campbell]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 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)

I know I harp on this repeatedly, but I use linux-i386 to build applications (and lazarus itself) 
for i386-linux / i386-win32 / i386-darwin / powerpc-darwin. If you are getting broken executables 
then your toolchain is broken. Freepascal and Lazarus are both very capable of working in a cross 
compile environment.

Regards,
Brad
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