Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/05/17 16:15, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > Am 19.05.2017 14:53 schrieb "Lukasz Sokol" > >: >> >> On 19/05/17 13:33, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: >> > You don't have to build a 32-bit FPC because an official > released

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 19.05.2017 14:53 schrieb "Lukasz Sokol" : > > On 19/05/17 13:33, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > > >>> You don't have to build a 32-bit FPC because an official > >>> released installer exists. So this is no problem at all. But > >>> seeing as pretty much everything is

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/05/17 13:33, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: >>> You don't have to build a 32-bit FPC because an official >>> released installer exists. So this is no problem at all. But >>> seeing as pretty much everything is moving (or already has moved) >>> to 64-bit, why bother with 32-bit these days.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 19.05.2017 13:54 schrieb "Lukasz Sokol" : > > On 19/05/17 11:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > On 2017-05-19 00:38, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > >> windows OS - there are simply no known issues with that under any > >> 64-bit windows version that I know of. snip... It won't

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 19/05/17 11:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-05-19 00:38, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: >> windows OS - there are simply no known issues with that under any >> 64-bit windows version that I know of. snip... It won't work >> from the IDE, though, but compiling your program from the command >>

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-18 23:14, James Richters wrote: That would be very much appreciated, http://geldenhuys.co.uk/~graemeg/fpc-3.0.2-win64.7z It's a 53MB download. It includes the 3.0.2 64-bit Windows compiler and source code, as well as the binutils and the go.bat batch file I used to compile the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-19 00:38, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: windows OS - there are simply no known issues with that under any 64-bit windows version that I know of. snip... It won't work from the IDE, though, but compiling your program from the command line, when you want to build a 64-bit .exe shouldn't be

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-19 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 19.05.2017 02:22 schrieb "James Richters" : > > Thank you for the explanation. I didn't really understand how to use the cross compiler. > > I have installed the cross compiler and tried to compile my program with > > ppcrossx64 program.pas > > but I get >

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
program as well and thought it might offer a performance advantage. James -Original Message- From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Nikolay Nikolov Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 7:39 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/15/2017 02:41 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-15 11:59, James Richters wrote: When I try to install 64 bit windows version, I don't have this anymore The Free Pascal project, for some weird reason, only ships a 64-bit Windows cross-compiler. So you need both the 32-bit and

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows On 2017-05-18 22:53, James Richters wrote: > Is there an easier way to generate a 64bit executable for windows than to > compile this myself? I can zip up my 64-bit FPC 3.0.2 directory and make it available for _unofficial_ download if that wil

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-18 22:53, James Richters wrote: Is there an easier way to generate a 64bit executable for windows than to compile this myself? I can zip up my 64-bit FPC 3.0.2 directory and make it available for _unofficial_ download if that will help. Let me know, and I'll post a link to the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-18 Thread James Richters
Of Graeme Geldenhuys Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:57 PM To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows On 2017-05-15 18:19, James Richters wrote: > Could you please give me a link to download 3.0.2 source archive? > I'm on the FPC sourceforge page but I'm very con

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-15 18:19, James Richters wrote: Could you please give me a link to download 3.0.2 source archive? I'm on the FPC sourceforge page but I'm very confused as to what is what. All downloads can be found from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/ From there you

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-15 16:57, James Richters wrote: I'm not quite following your batch file. I have no 'src' directory, where is that supposed to be? If you want the FPC 3.0.2 version, then download the official source archive for the 3.0.2 release from FPC's SourceForge page. Here is where I am

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread James Richters
: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows On 2017-05-15 11:59, James Richters wrote: > When I try to install 64 bit windows > version, I don't have this anymore The Free Pascal project, for some weird reason, only ships a 64-bit Windows cross-compiler. So you need both the 32-bit and 64-bit in

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 15 May 2017, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: On 05/15/2017 07:41 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: But again, I don't know why the FPC team doesn't make an official full 64-bit Windows release?? IIRC, they say it is because 32bit winwhatever stuff will run on 64bit winwhatever stuff

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread wkitty42
On 05/15/2017 07:41 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: But again, I don't know why the FPC team doesn't make an official full 64-bit Windows release?? IIRC, they say it is because 32bit winwhatever stuff will run on 64bit winwhatever stuff and because of that there's no real reason to build 64bit

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 64bit for windows

2017-05-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-15 11:59, James Richters wrote: When I try to install 64 bit windows version, I don't have this anymore The Free Pascal project, for some weird reason, only ships a 64-bit Windows cross-compiler. So you need both the 32-bit and 64-bit installs. I don't know why they do this.