[fpc-pascal] Using other fpc installation

[Tomas Hajny]

On Wed, August 16, 2017 22:16, kapibara via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Ah, so FP has no versions other than the official releases then? (2.6.0,
> 2.6.2, 2.6.4 and so on)
>
> Why doesn't FP use the same compiler revision as the SVN sources it
> comes with? Because the fp executable is compiled at the same time as fpc?

It uses the sources from which it has been compiled (the same way fpc does
too). Fp is a separate make target. It may be part of a snapshot, and it
may be compiled from SVN sources by you as well (it has some additional
prerequisites if you want to have the debugger integrated, and it requires
some additional FPC packages compiled first, but nothing special apart
from that).


> Alright then, I'll try instead:
>
> fpc test.pas
>
>
> Btw, why have fpc and also ppcx64? Does fpc call ppcx64?

Yes - or another compiler binary if (cross-)compiling for a different
CPU/platform (e.g. ppc386, ppcarm, ppcjvm, etc.).

Tomas