[fpc-devel] Aarch64 bootstrapping

[Jonas Maebe]

Alfred wrote on Mon, 06 Jun 2016:

> FPC revision 33895 introduced some changes that are behind a VER3_0 define.
> This revision prevents the building of FPC trunk with a FPC 3.1.1  
> bootstrap compiler on an aarch64 system.
>
> I do know that I should use a 3.0.0 bootstrapper to build trunk.
> So, I am open for instructions on how to build a 3.0.0 compiler for aarch64.
> Because, I do not know how to build one.
>
> Until this time, I used cross-compiling trunk on a Windows-system to  
> build a 3.1.1 (cross)compiler for aarch64.

FPC 3.0 does not support AArch64. Therefore you indeed always have to  
bootstrap it through cross-compiling.


Jonas