[fpc-pascal] Differences between ppc386 and ppcross386

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:02:52 +0100
Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:

> 
> On 23 Feb 2015, at 11:40, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > What are the differences between ppc386 and ppcross386?
> 
> ppcross386 gets compiled as part of a cross build (e.g. when  
> performing "make all OS_TARGET=win32" on a Linux/i386 machine), but  
> other than that it is the same as ppc386. The reason is that a cross  
> build always compiles both a cross-compiler (a Linux/i386-native  
> ppcross386 in the above scenario) and a native compiler for the target  
> (a Win32/i386-native ppc386 in the above scenario), and obviously both  
> binaries can't have the same name since they're both located in the  
> compiler directory after buidling.

I see. Thanks.
 
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Mattias