Installation OS4

Installation of Free Pascal on a AmigaOS 4 machine

You need:

• an AmigaOS4 machine or emulated UAE
• OS 4.0 or better
• much RAM
• binary release of Free Pascal for PowerPC Amiga

Installation

• Unpack the archive file to a temp folder (not RAM: because usually it will be too big)
• Start the installer follow instructions
• Restart Amiga

Crosscompile from Linux

Docker container

There is a ready to use docker container with Free Pascal and Lazarus

• Download archive [1]
• follow instructions inside the archive

Create cross compiler

This section describe how the Free Pascal compiler with all units can be created under a linux system. This could be important if you start without a working Free Pascal at Amiga.

• A working linux system (CPU is not important, i386 and x64 tested other platform might work)
• Latest stable Free Pascal compiler for your Linux (atm. Version = 3.2) (e.g. at Ubuntu/Debian apt-get install fpc)
• You need a the AmigaOS4 binutils e.g. Cross binutils vasm/vlink
• Get the latest Free Pascal source
  • via svn: svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc
  • via zip: from the Freepascal Development Page
• A folder fpc is created with the sources inside, change to the folder

cd fpc

• Now everything is set for make the compiler, we choose zipinstall to create directly a packed version fpc-3.3.1.powerpc-amiga.tar.gz

make zipinstall CPU_TARGET=powerpc OS_TARGET=amiga

In case opting for the vasm/vlink binutils (instead of the gnu binutils):

make zipinstall CPU_TARGET=powerpc OS_TARGET=amiga CROSSOPT="-XV -Avasm"

• now you have a complete archive with the Amiga freepascal compiler with all units and some utilities