[Lazarus] Cross-compiling -> MIPS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

SkyDiablo wrote:
>> Having the cross compiler and RTL, you should then be able to either 
>> build a native compiler etc. or to compile trivial programs (some 
>> fancy stuff won't work yet because you haven't built the full FCL). 
>> The native compiler can be copied onto your mipsel system, and is 
>> currently good enough to recompile itself.
> 
> ok, i want to create a little peace of software with multi-thread and 
> maybe use some indy (TidTCP) stuff? it this possible with this MIPS 
> crosscompiler port?

I think threads etc. is premature at the moment. Get a "Hello, World!" 
running as a confidence builder, and then see what else works. If you 
have time and expertise see if there's anything you can help with in 
fixing the compiler so that more of the tests run properly (the 
fpc-devel ML is the place to discuss this).

Apologies if this is brusque- I'd got a longer response ready to send 
and then we had a power failure and weren't able to get a generator 
running before the UPSes shut everything down. Add that to rather a lot 
of other problems...

The point is that the MIPS (specifically, mipsel) compiler has only been 
approximately intact for a few weeks, and there are still a lot of test 
cases failing. Since I've already seen that something wasn't working 
properly during Lazarus's startup and since I think that the IDE uses 
background code scanning directories etc. I think there's a whole lot of 
underpinnings that need to be got right first. It would be particularly 
unfair to get e.g. Indy involved until we're sure the compiler is 
error-free.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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