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Want to help, hit & miss building fpc and lazarus stable, fixes and trunk...
Jonas Maebe:
--- Quote from: Bram71 on February 20, 2021, 06:26:27 pm ---I want to help (if possible)...
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Thanks!
--- Quote ---When trying to build trunk on Windows it barfs on:
t_embed.pas(1704,3) Fatal: Syntax error, "NIL" expected but "(" found
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It's because you are using FPC 3.0.4 as a starting compiler. While technically the last two official releases are supported to build trunk, in practice often only the last release (currently 3.2.0) gets regularly tested. If you use 3.2.0 as a starting compiler, it will work.
--- Quote ---Would it help maybe if i set up a "build farm" that builds the latest committed versons of stable, fixes and trunk for Linux & Windows that reports back if a build fails?
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Someone actually already set this up! See http://build.alb42.de:8080/
Bi0T1N:
--- Quote from: Jonas Maebe on February 21, 2021, 01:15:39 pm ---
--- Quote ---When trying to build trunk on Windows it barfs on:
t_embed.pas(1704,3) Fatal: Syntax error, "NIL" expected but "(" found
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It's because you are using FPC 3.0.4 as a starting compiler. While technically the last two official releases are supported to build trunk, in practice often only the last release (currently 3.2.0) gets regularly tested. If you use 3.2.0 as a starting compiler, it will work.
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Probably the same issue sstvmaster and I had, for a solution see here.
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