On Tue, 4 May 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 04 May 2010, at 10:16, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Jonas Maebe het geskryf:
Cross-compiling is OK for small mobile devices, but not for mature platforms and
daily development.
Why not?
Because it doesn't always work.
I run 64-bit FPC under Linux. I have cross-compiled 32-bit Linux and 32-bit
Windows executables. The compilation went fine (no errors), but the
executables were not runnable on the 32-bit platforms. In the end I had to
setup 32-bit VirtualBox sessions with 32-bit FPC compilers to get actual
working executables.
No idea why the cross-compiling created corrupted executables.
The above simply does not make any sense. I'm not saying that the above was not your experience,
but other than a very strange bug which I have never seen mentioned by anyone before,
I have no idea what could cause those problems. It's definitely not some kind of inherent
problem of cross-compiling (with FPC or otherwise).
I had the same experience as Graeme. Admittedly, a couple of years ago.
I never found out why the generated binaries did not work. They simply
refused to run, and immediatly exited. (both from explorer and command-line
prompt)
Michael.
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