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<body><div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2024-01-01 at 22:34 +1100, David Bannon wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/1/24 22:17, Abou Al Montacir wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:0ea4fe9b47b4292eb3c7151739cdb6cdc240a61d.camel@sfr.fr" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></div><div>On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 17:07 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Not claiming we should do that now, but in the past we supported arm64 <br> in Debian well before we had an fpc version from upstream that supported it.<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><p>FPC3.2.2 works fine with arm64 out of the box. I build my app on debian bookworm raspi in 64bit mode, all good. I suspect there is a problem with Bullseye, maybe thats what you are discussing ? </p></blockquote><div>Paul meant that in the past we did provide arm64 support despite the official release was not providing such support.</div><div>That was possible thanks to several patches backported from FPC trunk to Debian FPC release.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the ticket in question is about mips64el and riscv64, which are supported currently by FPC master, but I fear 3.2.2 is too old to allow easily backporting patches from master.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, I've asked upstream to fix armhf capability bits and the patch was not obvious to port that they are considering creating a new 3.2.2 dedicated patch for it.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:0ea4fe9b47b4292eb3c7151739cdb6cdc240a61d.camel@sfr.fr" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>If someone is going to send patches for that, I'll help a bit, but for now my first goal is to get GTK3 working for Lazarus and that is already taking all my time.</div></blockquote><p>And your efforts are really, really appreciated !</p></blockquote><div>Thank you!</div><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><pre>Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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