> On Aug 7, 2018, at 11:34 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> The main difference is that the compiler will not be build using the new RTL.
> This is in most cases no problem at least if you don't want to use new
> features that you added to the RTL *inside* the compiler.
>
> I do that myself as well when testing bugs or developing new features (though
> I don't use Lazbuild, but build inside the IDE, but that shouldn't make a
> difference). I then build the RTL like this:
>
> make clean all FPC=/path/to/src/compiler/<cpu>/pp
>
> And then I can use the new RTL like this (assuming my current directory is
> the trunk checkout):
>
> ./compiler/<cpu>/pp -n -Furtl/units/<cpu>-<os> [other options] mytest.pp
>
> Please keep in mind that probably you can't use units outside of the RTL
> directory in that case (due to different checksums), for that you'd need to
> do a "make clean all" inside the top level directory which will also rebuild
> the compiler, the RTL and all packages. Also you *must not* use "fpc" as that
> will use your installed compiler, but you must use the one you compiled
> directly.
Thanks Sven, that works.
Btw, what are all these messages I get when building the compiler? I don’t know
if they should be ignored or I caused them myself.
objc1.inc(360,3) Note: tgobj: (FreeTemp) freeing of temp at pos -2147483648
requested
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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