[fpc-pascal] [ANNOUNCEMENT] fpcup diving deeper into crosscompiling

[Reinier Olislagers]

fpcup is a program that automates downloading and installing fpc and
Lazarus from svn.

I've finished the first "real" crosscompiling module [2] for win=>linux
i386 using the cross binutils and libs supplied by www.crossfpc.com [1]

If you want to test it, add a cross directory under the fpcup "root"
installdir directory (e.g. c:\development\cross, and e.g. regular fpc
sources in c:\development\fpc etc)

Then place the directory layout provided by the crossfpc project there,
so you get

c:\development\cross\bin\arm-android\arm-linux-androideabi-ar.exe
c:\development\cross\bin\arm-android\arm-linux-androideabi-as.exe
...
c:\development\cross\bin\i386-linux\i386-linux-ar.exe
c:\development\cross\bin\i386-linux\i386-linux-as.exe
...
c:\development\cross\lib\arm-android\libc.a
c:\development\cross\lib\arm-android\libc.so
...
c:\development\cross\lib\x86_64-linux\libc.a
c:\development\cross\lib\x86_64-linux\libc.so
...

then run regular fpcup
fpcup
followed by the cross compiler version:
fpcup --cputarget=i386 --ostarget=linux

Now continuing to work on:
- win32=>arm-android
- win32=>arm-linux
- win64=>linux

Contributions for other cross compilers are welcome - see the
m_cross*.pas units for simple examples (you only need to fill in the
code that checks for the proper binutils and crosslibs in the right
location).

The fpcup source code can be downloaded via
https://bitbucket.org/reiniero/fpcup/src
Haven't updated the binary downloads yet

Lots of thanks to the crossfpc guys!

[1] You can also download them via
https://bitbucket.org/reiniero/fpcup/downloads/CrossFPC_binutils_libs.7z
[2] the Linux,FreeBSD,OSX=>Windows one was not too hard thanks to built
in FPC support ;)