On 27-3-2012 17:44, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > patspiper <[email protected]> hat am 27. März 2012 um 17:17 geschrieben: > >> This is related to bug 0021580: Feature request: Robust IDE > cross-compiling. >> >> With Lazarus 1.0 being closer than ever, and with the availability of >> different Linux scripts to compile FPC from source (including cross >> compilation), maybe the time has come to have an automated installer >> that does all that, including the compilation of the cross binutils. > That is one approach. > > Another is to use VMs. > > VMs are nowadays very easy to setup and they run almost as fast > (sometimes even faster) as the host system. > > Installing/Upgrading all the required libs in a VM is much simpler than > setting up these libs cross compiled.
Agreed with Mattias. I would strongly recommend using VMs as well so that the level of complexity/maintenance decreases. Linux to Windows can be done, but the other way round is difficult. Why invest time and effort in chasing a moving target (new libraries) when you need to test on the target environment anyway? I'd rather have some more people looking at e.g. database fixes ;) Regards, Reinier -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
