On 4 May 2010 16:14, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > b) we only distribute an i386->x86-64 cross-compiler because on Windows the > problem that exists under Linux does not exist, and there is no advantage to > having a native x86-64 Windows compiler (at best it will be just as fast as a > i386->x86-64 cross-compiler, and at worst it will be slower) >
"This is a cross compiler package from i386-win32 to x86_64-win64. Before you can use it, you need to install fpc for i386-win32. " -- Free Pascal website http://www.freepascal.org/down/x86_64/win64-ftp.freepascal.org.var So to be able to compile Win64 apps, we need two installations. The Win64 download (17MB) and the i386 download (35MB). * now installation is more complex than it needs to be. It now requires two FPC versions. * Increases download size * Increases the difficulty in debugging * Cross-compiling doesn't always work, by producing corrupt binaries. * Myth that Win64 compiler was slower than i386 cross compiler (info supplied by you) So now you have a list that negates the benefits of a cross-compiler for Win64 platforms. Simply producing a native Win64 would solve all these issues. Hence Michael and I agree that simply creating our own native compiler would solves all these issues. Something which should probably have been done by the FPC release team in the first place. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
