On 9/28/2020 9:35 AM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-devel wrote:
On 9/28/20 12:24 AM, Travis Siegel via fpc-devel wrote:
How does one get a 64-bit version on windows. When I try to run a
64-bit version on windows, I encounter an error, though I don't
remember what that error is, since I've not tried it for a couple
weeks. I didn't even know there was a 64-bit windows version,
because as mentioned below, linking to the 64-bit version on the
website links to a 32-bit version. Admittedly, I'm no fan of
windows, and honestly, I hate that I'm forced to use it for my
everyday work, I'd much rather use linux/macos, but at the moment,
that's not an option, though I was windows free for over 10 years at
one point, that sadly has changed over the past 5 years. <sigh>
But, in any case, if there's a way to get 64-bit versions on windows,
I'd like to know how.
If you want to target Win64, using official FPC releases, you should
download two packages:
fpc-3.2.0.i386-win32.exe
fpc-3.2.0.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe
Install the first one, then the second one (it's an add-on package
that adds win64 target support to the 32-bit compiler). After that you
can compile to win32 via:
fpc -Pi386 hello.pas
and to win64 via:
fpc -Px86_64 hello.pas
The two install packages will be combined into one starting with FPC
3.2.2, so it will be a single download.
Thanks, that did the trick. I can now produce 64-bit executables. I
appreciate the assist on that one. I didn't look hard enough at the
releases page, or I might have figured that out, though I likely
wouldn't have installed the 32-bit one first. :)
I don't use the lazarius system, because I rarely create gui apps, and
when I do, I generally use powerbasic, because it makes generating guis
easy with it's add control syntax, and I've not figured out how to do
that sort of thing with FPC anyhow. Of course, being blind and using a
screen reader makes any guis I generate problematic unless my math is
perfect, because I tend to overlap gui elements because I don't get
their sizes right, then when a sighted person looks at them, they are
all like "Man, your gui is broken", so I generally get someone else to
use a gui tool to generate the interfaces for me, then I fill in the
code accordingly, it's easier than moving around gui elements in the
code until things look ok by someone elses standards. :)
I generally reuse my guis once I have one working, because it means I
don't have to plot layouts, I can just use one that already works.
<sigh> I'm not very good at the whole generate guis on the fly with
code thing, though when using java, that's not really a concern, I just
use the grid layout, and let the jvm sort it all out.
If there's something equivalent on FPC, I sure would appreciate knowing
about it.
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