[Lazarus] RE : FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENTdefinedonSolariscausescrashinlazarus

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Jul 19 14:41:42 CEST 2011


Ludo Brands wrote:
>> On a system dedicated to cross-development and the hosting of 
>> emulation 
>> environments, something like FatELF 
>> http://icculus.org/fatelf/ could be 
>> worthwhile.
>>
> 
> Problem is that host and guest are in most cases running a different version
> or even a different distribution of linux. Above is fine for distributing
> one binary of a specific library for, say, 32 and 64 bit versions. 
> 
> In the mean time I got the user emulation mode working in a chrooted
> environment. The performance improvement for graphics is spectacular. Using
> lazarus on sparc in user emulation is really comfortable compared to full
> system emulation. Startup is twice as fast but the real difference is in
> doing X intensive stuff like the pop-ups mentioned before, editing forms,
> etc. 
> 
> If you don't mind I'll update the Qemu wiki page to add the instructions on
> how to create and run the chrooted environment. It is a small effort for the
> initial set up but the payback in productivity is enormuous.

Sounds good. By all means update the page- that's what it's there for :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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