[Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:14 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 14:55, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Reimar Grabowski<reimgrab at web.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:27:14 -0300
>>> Marcos Douglas<md at delfire.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not so fast... here there are some binaries:
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_4/install/binw32/
>>>
>>> I really hope you know the difference between those binaries and
>>> ppc386.exe.
>>>
>>>> So, is it mandatory to install one version of FPC (to get ppc386.exe)
>>>> BEFORE get sources from SVN?!
>>>
>>> It's quite hard to compile pascal code without a pascal compiler.
>>
>> Would be easy if we could download a ppc386 in some place...
>
> and the others, too... i think that that's the real key to being able to set
> up a cross compiling environment... not just having those sources but also
> those necessary other platform compilers and they must be compiled in the
> manner necessary for the chosen build platform... in other words, they may
> not be called ppcwhatever.exe for the *nix platform... if they are, one must
> be very careful to grab the proper ones...

I agree.

MD