Fpcupdeluxe

[DonAlfredo]

When selecting Z80 as cross-CPU target, you need to select Spectrum as cross-OS target.

[Cascade]

Yes, z80-zxspectrum works as a combination.

Unfortunately its system.ppu is large: 'Hello World' uses (almost) all Spectrum's RAM 😅 - so I was trying to see if I could get something a bit more 'bare-metal' by going with the Embedded target option.  The z80 CPU is often used in Embedded systems without an OS, and it looks like FPC's ppcz80 cross-compiler does in fact support Embedded, if I can just figure it out.

[DonAlfredo]

You are right ! This is a fpcupdeluxe missing feature. Should be enabled now.
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/commit/a36dddbd500593dda94b4c3c49a8aa854fb25813
If you cannot build fpcupdeluxe yourself, please tell me your CPU and OS so I can build a pre-release to test.

[Cascade]

That sounds excellent! 

I've not tried building FpcUpDeluxe myself before - but I might give it a try.
I'm running an M4 (Apple Silicon, aarch64) with macOS Sequoia 15.7.3

[DonAlfredo]

Here you go.
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/releases/download/v2.4.0jp/fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa.zip

[Cascade]

Thank you!

Yes, almost working I think.  z80-embedded is now an accepted combination on the Cross tab, and Install Compiler indicates "That went well!"
However installation of z80-embedded deletes the ppcz80 executable file from fpc/bin/aarch64-darwin.

(if I re-install z80-zxspectrum afterwards, ppcz80 reappears).

I have managed to clone and build fpcupdeluxe 2.4.0jp successfully too, so I can probably test any further changes quite quickly.

[wpostma]

More people need to know about this, especially given the drought of official releases.

[Thaddy]

Everybody on this forum knows about this????

[AlexTP]

DonAlfredo,
thanks for your work on this tool. I need the bugfix of this, please:
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/issues/813
Can you help?