[fpc-pascal] Error: Assembler as not found, switching to external assembling

[Jonas Maebe]

On 19 Jan 2009, at 18:05, Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:

> One of the users reporting problems did search for as, and found it  
> in /developer/usr/bin/as! So Xcode
> was installed, and "as" was installed, but not in /usr/bin/as!
>
> Maybe Apple has changed the paths in some Xcode version? I have no  
> problems on my MBP/10.5 though.
>
> Perhaps an alias from /usr/bin/as would help? Or is there anything  
> else that FPC needs?

As of Xcode 3.x, you can install multiple versions of Xcode at the  
same time on a system. To allow for this, Xcode can install everything  
it needs into a a subdirectory, without installing anything globally  
on the system (i.e., nothing under /usr, /var, ..., only things under  
whatever directory you decide to install Xcode in).

However, for compatibility with standard unix development environments  
and configure/makefile-based source distributions, you still have the  
option to also install the command line utilities (such as automake,  
autoconf, as, ld, gcc, cpp, ...) globally under /usr.

Now, I am pretty certain that this is done by default and that this is  
only not done if you choose a custom install and deselect that option.  
I don't have an Xcode installer lying around to verify that though.

If it is not the default anymore, I'm not sure how FPC itself could  
solve it, because as mentioned earlier, you can install Xcode  
anywhere. I could add a default configuration option so that FPC also  
searches under /Developer/usr/bin for the assembler/linker, but that  
would not necessarily be enough. On the other hand, the whole reason  
of existence of that Xcode installation option is exactly for programs  
such as FPC.


Jonas

PS: the option to tell FPC where to search for as and ld is -FD