[fpc-pascal] How do you build FPC?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Jon Foster said:
> Is there documentation for compiling FPC? Am I just missing it
> somewhere? FPC seems incredibly flexible and I'd like to take advantage
> of it on some other platforms but so far it looks like that is reserved
> for a wizard elite somewhere and nobody is saying how to get there.

Did you read the buildfaq mentioned on the more information page of FPC?

http://www.freepascal.org/moreinfo.var

It is somewhat outdated, but describes general principles and dependencies
very well.