[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0-rc1 release

[John Lee]

Can you please tell me which packages are needed so linking works. Martin?

Don't understand your point(s) - it is complicated by the problems of arm
on 2.6.4 and the arm flavours, but you seem to be making it worse! We
support fpc on various win (and linux) os for i386 & various versions, eg
win xp (maybe), 7, 10. Also we used to say for these 'you need certain
utils eg as, ls etc' until we had the internal as and lds

Suspect the most common linux on rpi is wheezy or jessie (I run this on rpi
2 and rpi 1) - the rpi people seem to favour these,  So why don't we say
fpc supports rpi 1 and 2 on wheezy/jessie, at versions >x, and you need
certain utilities too, like we do with everything else?  We don't need to
mention the arm flavour, except in the details, any more than we mention
the instruction set of i386 with all their variants.

So why not keep it simple, tho' not too simple, as the great man is
supposed to have said, and release rpi compilers in 3.0.0 (as betas if
necessary) - there are a lot of them out there..
john










On 30 August 2015 at 13:22, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:

> On 30/08/15 14:11, John Lee wrote:
> > Not clear about rpi compilers for rc1. My testing on rpi 2 of Martin's
> > 3.0.0 of 18th Aug (similar to rc1?) suggests that compilation works ok,
> > but linking doesn't.
>
> Maybe you don't have the correct extra packages installed.
>
> > So does this mean that 3.0.0 doesn't have a working fpc for rpi 2?
> > What about rpi 1?
> >
> > I have both rpi 1 and 2 available, so let me know if I can help with
> > more testing. What's plan?
> >
> > btw, dont think the rc1 release notes make status clear.
>
> FPC 3.0rc1 supports the armhf eabi, which is used by (most?) Linux
> distributions on the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2. We don't advertise that we
> support a particular model of a particular board with a particular Linux
> distribution and if so, under which conditions (which packages might be
> needed). That is up to the maintainers of those Linux distributions, and
> something we have no expertise about nor any control over.
>
> It is impossible to develop for Linux/ARM without familiarity with Linux
> and ARM development in general, especially if you want to use
> tools/packages that have not been built by the maintainers of your Linux
> distribution. This is regardless of which compiler/language you use.
>
>
> Jonas
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