On 03 April 2010 09:41, Brad Campbell wrote: Alberto Narduzzi wrote: >> Patrick, >> >> I have quick-read the links, and I think the quickest and easiest way
>> of doing it is to install fpc and Lazarus on a Windows box, and then >> recompile the same source code. >> As I have a virtual Windows machine (under VirtualBox) on my Linux >> box, I think I can give it a try. > >Meh.. the quickest and easiest way is the one where you can type "make all" on your linux box and produce all your different architecture binaries all in one stroke. I don't see ever how running a virtual machine just to compile code for a single architecture should ever be called easy. > >Read the docs, do a bit of fiddling and *boom* you have a workable cross compile environment. Trust me, if I can do it, anyone can. > >If you get the mingw-binutils installed you can try a couple of these : > >I use this to build my windows compiler : (watch the line wrap) > >cd ~/src/fpc >FPC=ppc386 make crossall crossinstall CPU_TARGET=i386 OS_TARGET=win32 CROSSBINDIR=/opt/cross/bin >BINUTILSPREFIX=i386-mingw- INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/cross OPT="-gl -XX -CX" > >.. and this to build the LCL for win32. > >cd ~/src/lazarus >export LAZARUS_CONFIG_DIR=/home/brad/.lazarus >make OS_TARGET=win32 CPU_TARGET=i386 LCL_PLATFORM=win32 OPT="-gl -CX " all > >I kinda cheat with lazarus in that I build it default (for GTK2) then I build the OSX/Win32 builds, then I build it *again* for linux >>including the idepkg option. > >My compiler, toolchain and binutils lives in /opt/cross. Modify to suit. > >I don't build my applications with lazbuild, I use a custom makefile as I find it easier, but whatever works. > >All my applications are compiled for linux-i386, win32-i386, darwin-i386 & darwin-powerpc using a single source tree and a single make file >on one linux machine. It's much easier to maintain and I don't have to fight with windows or its related baggage. > >Brad I've always liked this idea, but working primarily in windows limits the options, and I find this somewhat annoying! My targets would be win32/64 and OSX-Carbon (+Cocoa when sufficiently mature). It looks like I might be able to do this from OSX, but win is my primary platform. I understand the reasoning, and I guess it's just one of those things.. One day I'll sort it out! -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
