----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikolai Zhubr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]cross compiler potential ?
> Hi, > Saturday, 28 June, 2003, 22:26:01, Harald Houppermans wrote: > > Suppose I ever do get a free pascal compiler working. > > > How usefull will it be ? > This depends entirely on how much you need it :) > > > What I want to do is write windows server software and then compile it for linux. > > > I would like to use: high performance counter, tcp/ip stack, udp protocol. > Many programs will compile and run fine without any change on both windows > and linux, provided you have respective FPC version installed on both > systems. There is absolutely no need for (and probably no benefit from) > crosscompiling to do this, unless you are prohibited to use linux :) > Be aware however, that low-level network stuff is somewhat different on > linux and windows (which has nothing to do with FPC though), so it might > very well happen that the program you design for linux will not be > compilable for windows or will not run on windows properly, and vice versa. > High-performance things also tend to be platfrom-specific. I'd suppose > you can find quite a lot of open-source server-related examples for *nix, > hardly as many for windows. (Well, not in pascal may be, but anyway) > I'm not much of an expert in this though... Interesting post. Indeed difference between linux and windows should be remember somewhere in the back of my head :) Like endianess :) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
