[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions
Mattias Gaertner
nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Mon Feb 10 18:26:49 CET 2014
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:01:28 +0200
patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
> > You can not (yet) override environment variables like PATH when invoking FPC.
> > Once this is implemented, it can be done by "additions and overrides" too.
>
> Although it is a welcome feature, it will make the usage really
> complicated considering build modes might cater for debug/release, FPC
> version, win/linux, etc...
You *can* override an env var, you don't need to. You can still use your
script and set env vars and restart the IDE.
> I instead propose to have a field next to the compiler path in the IDE
> options that accepts fpc's -Xp parameter. Xp allows one to specify the
> relative folder of the actual compiler (ppcxxx) with respect to the fpc
> executable. That would work well since each ppcxxx's location is fixed
> with respect to its associated fpc executable.
"fpc -h" does not mention -Xp.
"fpc -Xpdummy" does not give any error.
What does it do?
Mattias
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