[fpc-devel] rev 19036 breaks the Android cross-compiler

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15 Nov 2011, at 21:06, Florian Klämpfl wrote:

> I dn't know if this is a good long term solution: I fear too much
> duplication with having a seperate android target. I'd prefer an
> FPC_ANDROID define, I don't think that it will pollute the rtl and
> considering that there are a lot of arm "sub architectures" out there
> having an own target for each of them isn't a good idea either. Maybe we
> can even introduce some SUBARCH in the long term into our build system.

Android isn't a different architecture (if you consider native applications), but a different OS. It uses a Linux kernel (although even that one is heavily patched, afaik), and user land is obviously quite different (including the C library and the dynamic linker).


Jonas