[fpc-pascal] Compiling the compiler

[Vincent Snijders]

Andreas Berger schreef:
> Andreas Berger wrote:
>> I have a problem compiling the compiler. After a lot of compilation it 
>> attempts to compile pp.pas and I get the following error:
>>    pp.pas(213,1) Error: Entrypoint start not defined.
> I downloaded todays snapshot and had the same problem. Then I compiled 
> using "make all" + "make install" instead of "make cycle" and it worked. 
> Is this correct? What does "make cycle" do exactly?

There is at least one difference.
If you do make cycle in the compiler directory, the fpc.cfg file is used.
If you do make all or make compiler_cycle in the fpc source directory (that contains 
a compiler subdirectory), then no fpc.cfg file is used.

So maybe you should try make cycle OPT="-n"

Vincent