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

[Jonas Maebe]

On 03 Mar 2014, at 17:49, Paul Breneman wrote:

> 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"
> 
> Could the first part(s) be packaged into a small Free Pascal distribution, like the 3 zips on this page?
>  www.CtrlTerm.com

No, because you have to redo step 2 every single time you update your sources.


Jonas