Skybuck Flying schrieb:
Before looking at your code, I'd know the role that your project plays
at all. Is it only about making the FPC code compilable by Delphi, as
the first stage in the FPC bootstrap?
Yes.
Okay, so far.
3. Once the RTL is compiled use the original RTL sources and/or RTL
binaries to recompile the free pascal compiler so it's fully
self-hosting and self-compiling.
This can be accomplished already, without any modifications to the FPC
code, by using FPC instead of an Delphi compiler.
The whole idea is to not require FPC to do any development, all
development done on/in Delphi IDE and then final stage compile with FPC
for non-supported-delphi-platforms.
Development can be done in whatever IDE you like. This is absolutely
independent from the compilation and linking of the developed code.
When you want to use FPC as an alternative compiler for Delphi, then
you'll have to make it output binaries in a way that the Delphi linker
can use. In order to make use of further targets, as already supported
by FPC but not by Delphi, you'll have to update the Delphi RTL
accordingly, and you must add linkers, debuggers etc. for all these
targets. Here the Delphi license gets into the way, so that you'll have
to implement a new Delphi-compatible RTL from scratch.
This suggests to me that your approach means much work without any
practical use, you better create that RTL first, so that it can be used
already in the compilation of FPC itself.
DoDi
_______________________________________________
fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org
http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
