Matt Emson wrote: >>Is there some posibility to make (compiling) fpc without fpc? >>Is there some makefile or script in fpc (cvs) to avoid to use a fpc >>1.0.0 or 2.0.0 to create a fpc new version? > > > Cygwin runs exclusively on Windows machines... FPC has a Windows port. > Whilst I can see the point of a port to Cygwin, I seriously can't understand > why you can't use the Windows compiler to bootstrap the compiler. Cygwin is > just a bunch of DLLs and support binaries at the end of the day, and > creating a minimal bootstrap implementation using the Windows compiler, > whilst not trivial, is the simplest way of doing it. Am I missing some > reason for not using the Win32 compiler? > > By the way, how would one compile Pascal code without a Pascal compiler? No > magic script file will avoid the need for fpc.
Same applies to gcc ;) Without an older gcc you can't build a new one except using a propritary compiler. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
