On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:05 AM, waldo kitty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/22/2010 22:01, Reimar Grabowski wrote: >> >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:02:13 -0400 >> waldo kitty<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> Then you know what you are doing >>> >>> is that a requirement? especially when one simply wants to write a >>> program >>> ("hello world" for instance) and compile it for each of the available >>> platforms ;) >> >> Understanding is always a requirement. If you want "hello world" on many >> platforms and building a FPC cross-compiler is to complex, then perhaps you >> have the wrong tool for the job. > > and here i thought that you were bright enough to understand that "hello > world" was an example :? > > yes, i understand what you are saying however, remember that the point i'm > coming from is from that of the "average joe coder" who has no need of > understanding all the deep intricacies of everything... they only want to > simply and easily set up their environment so that they can "write once and > compile everywhere" even if that means compiling for platforms that they > don't even have access to ;)
About waldo said, I understood that: This things not need to be so hard, because they aren't. For example, do not had a ppc386 for Windows in FTP, but now has (thanks Marco). Now, we have a ppc386 for Windows, the compilation is easy and will be more easy to test FPC, eg. a "Hello world". MD -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
