[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.0 seed compiler for Rasperry Pi ARM?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 02:07:00 +0100 (CET), "Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)"
<charlie at scenergy.dfmk.hu> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> I just need the seed compiler to be able to build FPC from sources.
>> And build Lazarus of course.
>
>Then you need "ppcarm" from that archive, and nothing else. Just copy it
>whereever you want, in your home dir, or something and do:
>
>make all install FPC=<path/to/seed/ppcarm> INSTALL_PREFIX=<install/new/fpc/here>
>
>in the root of the SVN tree.
>
>FPC works from pretty much anywhere. You can have multiple copies in your
>home easily. It doesn't have to be installed at a certain location.
>

Thanks for the info!
I will put the ppcarm file into a new tar file and upload this to my
website as the seed compiler. Then I will modify my install script to
get this tar file rather than the one it now gets (2.6.4 from SF).
And I will NOT put it into /usr/bin but keep it somewhere in the home
dir tree.

What I also need to do is to create a fpc.cfg file and put that in a
proper location. In the setup.sh file in the download I found this
command:

# Create the cfg file
$FPCDIR/bin/fpcmkcfg -d basepath=$FPCDIR/lib/fpc/\$FPCVERSION -o
$FPCDIR/bin/fpc.cfg

I should be able to use something similar provided I also add fpcmkcfg
into the tar file, right? Seems like it deposits the fpc.cfg file in
the same dir as ppcarm. Will such a file override any same name file
located on path?

Note that my install script is made to assume nothing about the target
RPi system, so it must contain everything needed.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden