[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions

[Sven Barth]

On 10.02.2014 19:20, patspiper wrote:
> On 10/02/14 20:09, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:45:44 +0200
>> patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> It allows the caller to specify the location (AFAIK it can be a relative
>>> path) of ppcxxx (the actual compiler). That option removes the need to
>>> rely on env variables to specify the fpc and ppcxxx paths. It would be
>>> enough to provide a qualified path in the IDE options for the fpc
>>> executable, and coupled with a -Xp field, it would allow fpc to locate
>>> the ppcxxx executable.
>>> ex: ./fpc -h -Xp../lib/fpc/2.6.3
>> Sorry. I don't get it.
>> With this option I can select a ppcxxx executable. But I can
>> already select a ppc executable directly. So what do I gain?
>
> You can't specify a ppcxxx executable directly if you cross compile.

Of course I can. I just need to specify the right ppcXXX executable.

Regards,
Sven