[fpc-pascal] Cross-compile vs native

[Ewald]

On 01/28/2015 10:01 AM, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 01/27/2015 10:27 PM, Ewald wrote:
>>      - Without the target system, the application cannot be tested ..
> This is true, only because remote debugging is not well supported.

For remote debugging a target system is needed as well? So even if
remote debugging would be easy-peasy, the part you quotes still stands:
no target system: no decent testing.



>
> In fact I sometimes to programs to be run on a headless system (e.g. a
> NAS) Here you can't install Lazarus, because you don't have a GUI.

[this might be an extremely silly proposition, please forgive me] Why
don't you run lazarus through ssh? Or use vnc?


>
> You easily can install fpc and compile native, though.
>
> So I ended up testing the software on a PC (as far as possible without
> the hardware) and finally compile it on the target system.
>
> I did not bother to install the cross compiler (the problem here is
> not fpc itself, but the cross-libraries that are necessary link the
> project for the target system).
>
> If I would be able to use Lazarus on the development system to
> remote-debug the target system, the effort to install the complete
> cross-compile infrastructure would be viable.

I believe you are saying that you would like to cross-compile and debug
the system remotely (which, judging from your other posts, are mostly
embedded platforms?), but due to difficulties/roadblocks you are forced
to compile it natively and debug it on the target system.

Well, _if_ the cross-compilation works, why not just ssh in to the
target system and run gdb there? Please forgive my ignorance as I do not
know the exact details of your setup.

-- 
Ewald