From 4693d8edcc882e566b48137736b688d4b81ee671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: peter Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:26:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * updated --- rtl/README | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/rtl/README b/rtl/README index 50ef4ab16a..1cce5c4bd2 100644 --- a/rtl/README +++ b/rtl/README @@ -8,14 +8,27 @@ The main makefile is located ABOVE the RTL tree. It uses the FPC makefile.fpc to guess reasonable defaults for everything it needs. (these files can be found in base.zip on the FTP site) -Some variables that you may want to set (using 'make ="value"') are: - - FPC - What compiler to use. Use an absolute path. - (default is ppc386) - UNITINSTALLDIR - Where to install the RTL units - OPT - any special options you want to set for the compiler. +The only variable that you may want to set are +PP - What compiler to use. Use an absolute path. + (default is ppc386) +UNITINSTALLDIR - Where to install the RTL units +OPT - any special options you want to set for the compiler. In principle, you can also descend into the subdirectory of your OS, and -type 'make' there, that will also compile everything. +type 'make' there, that should also compile everything. + +The tree contains subdirectories for all the supported operating systems, +as well as all processor architectures. The processor directories contain +low-level routines which are required for the system unit (if they are not +available in high-level language form), as well as optimized versions of +the pascal generic routines (the generic routine source code is localed in +the inc subdirectory). + +The following directories are not supported officially and may not work +correctly with FreePascal v1.0: + +go32v1 - The DJGPP go32v1 DOS extender (no longer supported) +palmos - The PalmOS directory for the Dragonball (incomplete) + Enjoy.