Am 31.12.2011 17:09, schrieb Bernd: > Hi, > > I have never ever tried to hack on the compiler itself before so this > is probably a stupid question (and probably not the last one) but I > assume there is a simple answer: > > My Platform is Linux/i386. I have looked around a bit and found inside > the compiler directory are a few .lpi files lying around, I have > opened pp.lpi with lazarus and it will build an executable pp and > output it into the i386 folder and this seems to be a working compiler > that can compile a simple hello world program on i386 which will run > on i386.
Yes, so far correct. > But it did not seem to use any of the source files inside the > i386 folder! I intentionally placed some some writeln() and even > introduced some syntax errors and it would still compile and the > resulting pp binary would be an i386 compiler. How is this possible? > > when I build the compiler with make from within the compiler directory > then it will use all these units and produce a ppc386. What is the > difference? > > confused, Me too ;) Can you point out which units you changed? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
