[fpc-pascal] FPC for SCO Unix

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Feb 2007, at 20:52, Daaave wrote:

> However -- Am I correct in my understanding that I need the FPC  
> compiler to
> compile the FPC compiler?

Yes.

> If so, how far back to I have to go version-wise
> to get a compiler that doesn't require the FPC compiler to  
> compile?  As no
> SCO install is available (and I understand why), I'm kinda between  
> the rock
> and the hard place.

No, you can perform so-called "cross compiling": compile from one OS/ 
CPU for another OS/CPU. See the following pages for more information  
on how to (cross-)build FPC:
* http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf
* http://wiki.freepascal.org/Cross_compiling


Jonas

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