[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 10.02.2013 15:23, schrieb Vittorio Giovara:
> Indeed, a fpc->js code generator would have a rather limited use. A
> LLVM backend instead could be use on many more levels, and for example
> could improve (or replace) the compilation process on iOS.

Improve in which regard? Experience showed that the more tools involved 
the less comfortable the use of FPC is. Within a few minutes you can 
build on any platform a win32 cross compiler (if the CPU is fast enough) 
because no external tools are involved. Compare this with cross 
compiling to linux (no to talk about darwin): takes usually 1-2 hours to 
setup: first, download, configure and build binutils, then sort out the 
libraries and copy them to host system, and then with some luck (if 
binutils are not broken), building fpc might work.