Hi forumites,
I'm using Debian 8 on a 32 bit system and would like to cross-compile to Win 32, but it seems there is a bug in Debian which prevents cross-compiling when using their repository packages, see:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845498I do not need to create GUI programs and I use my own editor, so I don't need Lazarus or its components. So my question is - can I just download the debs for fpc-3.0 and fpc-source (and NOT the deb for Lazarus) and expect to set up cross-compiling for win32 ok without the lazarus deb?
Alternatively I could install the binary package available on the free pascal site (fpc-3.0.0.i386-linux.tar from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/3.0.0/), but does this include the full package for cross-compiling?
Thanks for any advice.
p.s. a further complication with Debian is that if installing the debs from the lazarus site, Debian thinks that these packages are older than what's in the repository and tries to upgrade them, which leads to problems. :-(