[fpc-pascal]How-To compile the source

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On vrijdag, september 21, 2001, at 04:00 , Neilson Antônio Henriques
> wrote:
>
> >     Do exist some "how-to" compile the sources ??
>
> No, there is no how-to (there is a "make cycle faq" somewhere I believe
> however). However, if you've got the compiler and the rtl sources
> untarred in a directory, go in the compiler directory and type
>
> make cycle RELEASE=1
> make install
>
> to compile and install the compiler/rtl. You will need a prior binary
> installation of FPC on your system (since it doesn't bootstrap using gcc)

Small correction:

The programmers reference contains a whole chapter on how to compile
the compiler and RTL.

Michael.