[fpc-pascal] Cross compile from x86 to Pi

[Chris Moody]

On 08/17/2015 05:15 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Michael Schnell wrote:
>
>> Cross compiling with fpc is not for that faint of heard. (Been there some
>> years ago)
> Well, I do it 8 hours a day for a living, actually... :) I think it's
> really easy these days, if you know some basics about the build system
> (most of which is available from the Wiki), and how the some of the
> dependencies work (binutils, mainly). Basically you can have a working
> crosscompiler setup with a *single* make command in about two minutes, to
> almost any system which you have binutils installed for. I wouldn't call
> that hard.
>
> And it's especially super-easy these days, when you can test most of your
> cross-setup outputs on a Linux/x86 box, thanks to the user-space emulation
> of a good binfmts/QEMU setup (again, available out-of-box with some
> packages on Ubuntu/Debian). You don't even have to copy over to an ARM
> (etc.) box...
>
> Of course, wiring it into an IDE is a different question, that I don't
> know (and don't use)...
>
> Charlie
> _______________________________________________
>
Hi again Charlie,

Do you use the MSEide software to do the cross compiling? or do you just 
call fpc with the right parameters?

Mind sharing your setup?

Thanks,

Chris