[fpc-other] Re: Which operating system is used to develop FPC ?

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They use several operating systems.

AFAIK Florian uses Windows often, Daniel uses Linux, Michael uses Linux, 
Marco uses BSD, etc.

You have to have several team members using different operating systems 
and have at least someone obsessed or focused more on one than the other 
team member.. other wise the cross platform support isn't as good.

However, I will mention that cross compiling is easier on Unix because 
you can make Win32 targets from a Unix box easier than you can vice 
versa. One problem is the Windows file system is not like unix, so 
things like symlinks and links and what not to .SO files are hard to 
emulate without you just making exact copies of them instead of links. 
This was my reason for saying even a unix Mac would be easier to create 
unix elfs on than a Win32 machine which Marco never understood.  It's 
not just the unix file system though and the file links and symlinks and 
such things, but the fact that the elf (or whatever binary format you 
are creating) requires libraries and a bunch of unix related files to 
exist in the lib search paths, which you have to chase down and find 
from an existing unix system (but, easier to do on a unix like system 
since the file system layout can be emulated easier).