So there's no minimal C version of the compiler? Interesting. So to build trunk I need the new compiler installed first. I thought there might be a trick to avoid that.
And by Turbo Pascal, I assume you don't mean 3.01a! Kevin On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:15 PM Jonas Maebe <jo...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > On 18/05/2019 15:09, Kevin Lyda wrote: > > Is the current (3.0.4) fpc compiler required to build the compiler or > > is there a way to bootstrap a compiler? > > An FPC release can always be built by the previously released FPC > version, and FPC trunk can always be built by the current release. > > While very old FPC versions could be compiled by Turbo Pascal (and at > some point also by Delphi, I think), current FPC versions can only be > compiled by FPC itself. > > > Jonas > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- Kevin Lyda Galway, Ireland _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
