[fpc-devel] Building a debug version of FPC-main on Windows

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Werner Pamler via fpc-devel wrote:

> Am 25.08.2021 um 20:53 schrieb Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel:
>> Sorry. I'm on holiday, and I only check in occasionally at night. Try 
>> changing PP= to FPC=
> Thank you, Marco. Now I did already the second successful build of a 
> older clone after an update. This really was the solution. But what is 
> the difference between PP= and FPC= ?

The latter is a small wrapper around the former, which allows to select
target CPU and version (if I recall correctly) and can also be used to 
print the name of the correct binary to use.

araminta: ~/fpc >fpc -PB
/usr/local/bin/ppcx64
araminta: ~/fpc >fpc -Pi386 -PB
/usr/local/bin/ppc386

Michael.