[fpc-devel] Smarter way of generating ARMHF fpc trunk installation?

[Paul Breneman]

On 03/03/2014 03:24 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> fpcup, an FPC/Lazarus build/installation/update program uses the
> following steps on ARMHF Linux (e.g. raspbian, odroid):
>
> 1. Get FPC stable (2.6.2 currently) ARM bootstrap compiler binary
> This compiler cannot directly build ARMHF FPC trunk.
>
> 2. Use the compiler to build a regular ARM fpc trunk compiler ("the
> intermediate bootstrap" compiler... sorry, not that good at naming :) )
>
> make "FPC=/home/odroid/development/fpcbootstrap/arm-linux-ppcarm"
> "--directory=/home/odroid/development/fpctrunk/compiler"
> "CROSSOPT=-dFPC_ARMHF -Cparmv7a -CaEABIHF -CfVFPv3" "OPT=-dFPC_ARMHF"
> "OS_TARGET=linux" "CPU_TARGET=arm" "OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1" "cycle"
>
> 3. Use the generated compiler to build regular ARMHF FPC+RTL etc, as
> well as Lazarus.
>
> Would there be a smarter/shorter way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Reinier

Could the first part(s) be packaged into a small Free Pascal 
distribution, like the 3 zips on this page?
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