Building FPC on OpenBSD 7.5

[Romain]

Hello,

I downloaded FPC from here: http://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot/v33/x86_64-openbsd/


I am trying to built FPC 3.3.1 (sources found here: https://www.freepascal.org/develop.html), but the Makefile tells me:

Makefile:3234: *** The only supported starting compiler version is 3.2.2. You are trying to build with 3.3.1..  Stop.


However,the available version of 3.2.2 was built with OpenBSD 6.8, whose libc is incompatible.
(see: http://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/3.2.2/x86_64-openbsd/readme.x86_64-openbsd )


Any help?

Thanks.

[Thaddy]

Try build with OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1

[Fred vS]

Hello Romain.

Unfortunately, fpc for OpenBSD doesn't yet work with the latest versions of OpenBSD (7 and above). A fix is ​​pending (see https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41017).

If you need it immediately (or if you don't have the patience to wait for a hypothetical new version of fpc that includes the fix), you can use, from fpc-ootb, the 64 bit version: fpc-ootb-324-x86_64-openbsd77.tar.gz or/and the 32 bit version: fpc-ootb-324-i386-openbsd77.tar.gz.

[Romain]

Try build with OVERRIDEVERSIONCHECK=1

Unfortunately, both 3.2.2 and 3.3.1 failed to build. Thanks.

[Romain]

If you need it immediately (or if you don't have the patience to wait for a hypothetical new version of fpc that includes the fix), you can use, from fpc-ootb, the 64 bit version: fpc-ootb-324-x86_64-openbsd77.tar.gz or/and the 32 bit version: fpc-ootb-324-i386-openbsd77.tar.gz.

Thanks a lot! It works. (It does not compile 3.2.2 and 3.3.1 though.)

Now, time to try the FPC Pascal compiler.

[Fred vS]

Thanks a lot! It works. (It does not compile 3.2.2 and 3.3.1 though.)

Are you talking about official fpc 3.2.2 source?
If so, indeed, you need to compile the patched source from https://github.com/fredvs/freepascal-ootb/ using the fpc-ootb binary from fpc-ootb release.
You may use the script build_fpc-ootb-64_openbsd.sh (use fpc-ootb as compiler in the script).

Regarding compiling the official FPC 3.3.1 source code with the fpc-ootb executable, I haven't tried it. I don't know (and highly doubt) if the OpenBSD 7+ patch has already been applied to the main FPC 3.3.1 source code.

[Romain]

Are you talking about official fpc 3.2.2 source?

Yes, I was. We’ll see that later. Thanks!

[DonAlfredo]

I have proposed another fix for OpenBSD.
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/41017#note_3055754181