[fpc-devel] Cross-compiling and warnings from linker

[Jonas Maebe]

On 23/11/2021 17:17, Sergey Organov via fpc-devel wrote:
> Because it was not expected. I definitely can't point to any other user
> tool that, being installed in/opt/cross/bla-bla-bla/, would read
> configuration file from/etc/. Maybe I just didn't meet one yet.
> However, GCC, being most close to FPC by its application, definitely
> doesn't behave like that.

I think the GCC behaviour is at least partly because of historical 
reasons. GCC is often built as part of the sysroot itself, and 
originally didn't even have custom sysroot support and instead hardcoded 
all the paths in the binary. GCC is also often built without support for 
all target OSes, which means you could get compiler binary name conflicts.

FPC, OTOH, was designed from the start with as few differences as 
possible between native and cross-compiling. Our configuration files 
have macro support to deal with this, the compiler binaries by default 
always support all target OSes, and we have sysroot support (although we 
didn't have it from start, but initially we had hacks like the earlier 
mentioned -Xd in combination with -Fl).

As an aside, on e.g. macOS the -XR parameter is used to point FPC to a 
specific macOS SDK. As these are shipped by Apple, they (obviously) 
don't contain any FPC-specific files, configuration or otherwise.


Jonas