> Am 19.04.2021 um 14:22 schrieb Marco van de Voort via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>: > > Op 2021-04-18 om 11:40 schreef Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel: >>> Am 18.04.2021 um 00:45 schrieb Curtis Hamilton via fpc-devel >>> <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>: >>> >>> Is there any interest in porting FPC to Freebsd/PowerPC64? >>> >>> I'm looking for some help with port FPC to FreeBSD on PowerPC. Any >>> assistance would be appreciated. >>> >> Interest in FreeBSD is apparently very little in the last years within the >> FPC universe, considering the half backend support even for x86-64. > > Half backend support? Did you mean _LLVM_ backend support? There is none, > save some work I did in Berlin.
I meant baked, sorry. > >> Even more after the main FPC FreeBSD port contributor Marco switched years >> ago to windows. > > No, it was my remote shell account changing from FreeBSD on own hosted > systems to a linux account on a commercial shared server. I mostly booted own > systems under Windows since I left college (which, admittedly, in my case was > fairly late) > > But the real kicker was the LLVM migration that necessitates things in > startup that I'm not capable off. Startup code, in particular was we use pascal ones now is normally not a problem ;) > Even less so with toolchains that randomly seem to drop sections instead of > reporting an error. > > I'm told that with FreeBSD13, the last lifeline, ld.bfd will be gone, and the > last somewhat workable version(11) goes out of support in September. IIRC, lld simply crashed with FPC linker files, so I think this was the reason why I gave up on it. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
