[Lazarus] FPCDefines.xml: RealCompiler InPath

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:13:16 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Was looking at what changed in the post 1.0 configs to see if fpcup
> needs to be adjusted.
> 
> Ran fpcup with empty primary config path dir to get and let fpcup setup
> Lazarus trunk, then ran Lazarus and converted to new format.
> 
> Noticed this difference in fpcdefines.xml:
> directly after fpcup ran:
>       <RealCompiler File="C:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe"
> Date="1085035464" OS="win32" CPU="i386"
> InPath="C:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe" FullVersion="2.6.1"/>
> after conversion:
>       <RealCompiler File="C:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe"
> Date="1085035464" OS="win32" CPU="i386"
> InPath="C:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe" FullVersion="2.6.1"/>
> 
> The InPath location is different.
> Note that c:\development\fpcbootstrap is in my path and contains ppc386.exe
> c:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32 is not in my path.
> 
> Questions:
> 1. Should I be worried about this ;)
> 2. What does InPath mean?

The InPath is the ppc executable in PATH (the environment variable).
It is used by the fpc executable, which is normally used.
If this changes the IDE asks the compiler for its settings.

Mattias