[fpc-pascal] Building FPC trunk on XP win64

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, November 25, 2010 12:17, Birger Jansen wrote:
>> Well, bash is probably the problem. FPC doesn't provide bash, so somehow
>> unix utilities from some other set were used (cygwin,mingw) and they
>> complain that they don't run in their own environment.
>>
>> To test this, sanitize your PATH so that only Windows and FPC related
>> dirs
>> are in the PATH and try again.
>
> Thanks! I cleaned up the path (removed everything except the FPC path) and
> that took care of all the bash warnings. The make process seems to get
> further now, but it still stops with an error, below are the last lines
> from the output.
>
> In the compiler folder I can see the files ppc1.exe, ppc2.exe, ppc3.exe
> and ppcx64.exe. Except for ppc1.exe they have the same size and modified
> time.
>
> Any idea what causes a problem now?
 .
 .
> make[3]: Leaving directory `E:/FPC/lazarus/fpc/trunk/compiler'
> __missing_command_CMP -i218 ppc3.exe ppcx64.exe
> process_begin: CreateProcess((null), __missing_command_CMP -i218 ppc3.exe
> ppcx64
> .exe, ...) failed.

Yes - this means that you don't have GNU tool called "cmp" in the PATH.

Tomas