[fpc-pascal] Why can't you cross-compile from x86_64-linux to i386-linux?

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.03.2012 10:04, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 7 March 2012 10:37, Sven Barth<pascaldragon@*****>  wrote:
>>
>> Graeme, please. You should be around here long enough to already know that.
>> ;)
>
> I hate cross-compiling because it never works for me, or gives very
> unstable executable as end result. But I wanted to cross-compile in a
> pinch - which clearly is not a good choice.

I normally don't have much problems with cross compiling...

>> Your fpc is compiled for x86_64 which defaults to calling ppcx64 which can
>> only compile for x86_64. If you now pass "fpc -i -Pi386" and have a
>> ppcross386 compiler available in the location fpc looks for then you'll see
>
>
> I have a ppc386 symlink in the same 'bin' directory as my 64-bit 'fpc'
> executable and this is what Lazarus gives me when I changed linking
> Target and CPU settings.... I guess there is a big difference between
> ppc386 and ppcross386. ;-)

Hmm... according to the source of the fpc binary it should look for 
ppc386 as well as ppcross386 in the following directories:
* the directory given by -Xp
* the directory of the fpc binary
* all directories in $PATH

> Thanks for responding though... I'm installing FPC from scratch in my
> FreeBSD VM now.

That's what I'm here for ;)

Regards,
Sven