Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> On 7/3/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I thought it was only needed to build FPC ? >> >> No, it's necessary to build software for symbian os. >> >> The way I designed it you can't simply type: fpc -Tsymbian >> mysoftware.pas >> >> And expect to have a symbian executable. >> >> This command fails to give enougth information for a real build, which >> includes the UIDs, if you want to build for the emulator or the real >> devide, which sdk you are using, where the sdk is located, etc, etc. >> >> Because symbian has many unique things I decided to create a external >> build tool, which just uses fpc to generate assembler. The other >> option would be adding lot's of symbian specific options on fpc, but I >> didn't like this idea. > > I think you made a right choice :-)
Actually, I could imagine that the final version might be better integrated with FPC for better consistency with other platforms (that certainly doesn't mean that the current solution is wrong - especially considering the current "work in progress" status) and thus possibly higher user-friendliness for FPC users interested in developing for this platform (possibility to use the same configuration files, common documentation of command-line options, no need to install special tools, etc.). Part of the stuff mentioned above could be probably supported by FPC in a transparent way (paths to SDK libraries and include files, emulator and real device supported as two different targets sharing RTL and most of the platform-specific infrastructure, and possibly others), others could be indeed handled by platform-specific command line options (we already have platform-specific options anyway and it's possible that some of the newly required ones may be re-useable for other current or future target platforms). Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
