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

[Vincent Snijders]

Brad Campbell schreef:
> 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) 

The compiler.

> 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)

When creating win64 installer (release or snapshot) including compiler.

> 
> 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.

Yes, but you only find out when running it. Now if you use a native 
win64 compiler on win64, then you actually use a fpc generated win64 
binary when creating a lazarus binary, so the chances that you generate 
a broken binary is less. This is certainly the case for snapshots with 
daily changing binaries, and I try to keep the release and snapshot 
building as closely similar as possible, so that snapshot builds can be 
as previews for release builds

 > Freepascal and Lazarus are both very capable
> of working in a cross compile environment.

Agreed.

Vincent