On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Hans-Peter Suter wrote:
I couldn't find the source for the manuals, e.g. [prog.pdf]( http://www.freepascal.org/docs.var). Does someone know where I can find them?
in subversion. See http://www.freepascal.org/develop.var Section 'Other repositories'
Some other questions: - In prog.pdf there is a section about "Compiler and RTL source tree structure". Is there some documentation about the (not-mentioned but huge) 'package' folder?
No, this is on my todo list (since ages :/ )
- (I suppose 'rtl' folder is the base for the compiler and 'package' kind of an extended standard library? In 'package' there are folders like 'fcl_<name>', 'rtl_<name>' and (many) <name>, how is this motivated?
"name" are usually import packages for libraries. "rtl-name" is something which used to be in RTL but has been moved to packages, so the compiler bootstrap cycle would be shorter. "fcl-name" are actively developed classes for use with FPC.
- There is wiki docu about fpcmake and FPMake. But I'm still a bit ignorant about the purpose of the latter. Could it be ignored? When I looked up source code installation instructions, in the forum it was mentioned to get the code and then ~ `make distclean; make all; make install`. This sounds more familiar to me than compiling code into a binary FPMake-package
The makefiles call fpmake. So you cannot ignore them.
- With FPMake I see the aim to split the code up into packages (with units, binaries, examples and documentation). But I don't (yet) understand why it builds fpmake-executables to do so? (Really ignorant: and why e.g. there isn't 'just a hypothetical github-package-project' which can be cloned, built and installed)? Is there any docu, discussion about this subject?
the fpmake executables are exactly meant to enable this github-package-project, without falling back on make. There are 2 motivations for using fpmake: 1. Make does not understand dependencies as FPC understands them. 2. fpmake is pascal code. Anyone writing pascal code can create a fpmake file, no extra tools need to be learned. This is the main motivation. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
