Hi Sven!
I suppose you can just have Build Servers and build all major
OS/Architectures. The platform differences could be solved by an
additional 'target dependent' package. But I suppose with the Dynamic
Packages, we could just bundle the different architectures in the one
Package File, and have a header which states which architectures it has
in it, or even in the file listings in the Package in a certain
directory. When that time comes, fun stuff will happen, as the Lazarus
could be made to auto-update and such for the normal folk. (I know mine
is practically auto-update.. Update VCS and then rebuild :p ) and then
there's FPCUP .. But just thought something like Netbeans.
I was also thinking, when I have time, I wanted to make an API for
Lazarus which devs could make their own VCS and have it display in the
IDE, to make it more modern.. But I have a project due very very soon,
so I can't really work on it yet. :p
Anyway, thanks for the reply Sven! I'll have that bug fix tested as soon
as I get a moment.
Take care!
- Den
On 14-09-06 03:29 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
> Any thoughts?
Dream on. FPC is a native compiler and someone would need to implement
that proposed bytecode and maintain it.
Even once we support LLVM we wouldn't drop any of our native code
generators and even if we did LLVM simply does not support all those
platforms that we support (e.g. m68k as CPU or OS/2 as OS).
Additionally there'd still be the platform differences which would
stop you from distributing one set of blobs: on Windows you need to
use the WinAPI, on Linux C API and X11 and on Mac OS X C API and
Carbon/Cocoa. If you'd encode all this currently handled by ifdefs and
different units into those blobs you could simply distribute the
source as well.
Please note that support for binary packages (aka dynamic packages)
will come. But they will depend on a target just as compiled units
currently do already.
Regards,
Sven
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