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

[Karoly Balogh]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2026, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:

> > 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.

Are you sure? There seem to be several very recent cross-emx toolchains on
GitHub, for example:

https://github.com/komh/cross-os2emx
https://github.com/neozeed/crossemx-binutils-2.9.1

So at least the EMX cross-build seems possible? Not sure what you do use
for the native OS/2 port.

Charlie