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

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2026-04-21 10:21, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2026, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote:


Hi Charlie,

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>> 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.

Many thanks, I wasn't aware of them. Both of them seem to be fairly new. 
The latter doesn't contain any release, it looks like an attempt in an 
early stage, but the former looks very promising (and comes from a 
developer known for his various OS/2 ports, thus very likely to be 
working well - I cannot check it immediately, but I'll do so later for 
sure). It's good that things have moved forward in this area. :-) I'll 
still need to check whether our makefiles work well in this case, but 
even if not, this could be fixed for sure.

Tomas