[fpc-pascal] compiling the compiler from within the Lazarus IDE

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 31.12.2011 17:09, schrieb Bernd:
> Hi,
> 
> I have never ever tried to hack on the compiler itself before so this
> is probably a stupid question (and probably not the last one) but I
> assume there is a simple answer:
> 
> My Platform is Linux/i386. I have looked around a bit and found inside
> the compiler directory are a few .lpi files lying around, I have
> opened pp.lpi with lazarus and it will build an executable pp and
> output it into the i386 folder and this seems to be a working compiler
> that can compile a simple hello world program on i386 which will run
> on i386. 

Yes, so far correct.

> But it did not seem to use any of the source files inside the
> i386 folder! I intentionally placed some some writeln() and even
> introduced some syntax errors and it would still compile and the
> resulting pp binary would be an i386 compiler. How is this possible?
> 
> when I build the compiler with make from within the compiler directory
> then it will use all these units and produce a ppc386. What is the
> difference?
> 
> confused,

Me too ;) Can you point out which units you changed?