[fpc-pascal] Who is working on getting FreePascal released?

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2026-04-21 09:37, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Me too.
> 
> I'm building the Win32 and Win64 within a Docker container on Linux, 
> keeping the same directory structure which the official Lazarus builds 
> use.
> It builds Lazarus trunk and FPC trunk. I've attached the build script; 
> maybe it can help someone.
> 
> It's certainly possible to build other platforms (Linux, DOS, macOS, 
> OS2, whatsoever), but I don't need them. That's why I focused on 
> Windows only.

Unfortunately, you cannot build OS/2 releases of FPC on Linux, because 
the needed port of GNU binutils is not available there. It might be 
possible to build it from Gitlab CI using the SSH runner if you have a 
running OS/2 instance with SSHD.

Tomas


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal 
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2026, 13:24:51
> Subject: [fpc-pascal] Who is working on getting FreePascal released?
> 
> On Monday, 20 April 2026 09:40:40 BST Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> I'm also eagerly waiting for the next release. Not for 3.2.4, but for 
>> 3.4.0.
>> Imho, it'd be desirable to have yearly releases with only some 
>> enhancements
>> and new features instead of waiting for big steps for more than 6 
>> years.
> 
> What environment and architecture are you on?
> 
> I've started making unofficial releases of FPC 3.3.1 ('main' - aka 
> 'trunk'). I
> started this mainly because I have software that requires features in 
> FPC
> 3.3.1 that others wanted to test too - and I simply can't sit around 
> for a few
> more years, waiting for the FPC team.
> 
> Think of it as "FPC Community Edition" releases. ;-)  These will come 
> out
> monthly.
> 
> I'm considering merging in a few outstanding MRs too for those releases 
> (after
> I did a round of triaging).
> 
> https://github.com/graemeg/fpc-opdf-releases
> 
> ps: I'll probably rename the project at some point.
> 
> Regards,
>   Graeme
> 
> 
> 
> 
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