On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:08:29PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > > > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they > > > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools > > > we were using, and set up everything in MSYS. > > > > At least the mingw binutils are still maintained: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/binutils-2.22. > > > > The same goes for "make" (FPC 2.6.x has problems with make 3.82 though, > > not specific to Windows/mingw) and gdb at least. Which abandoned tools do > > you mean? > > Sven already replied, but roughly in the coreutils package. (the former > findutils and diffutils iirc)
Sorry if this is a daft question, but can't you use the msys coreutils? Or do they have some limitation? Last time I built fpc in windows, I didn't use the tools shipped with fpc at all. I built it inside an msys terminal (with patched fpc Makefiles). Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
