Re: Including windows-binary files for cross compiling into package

[Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

Joost van der Sluis on 10/26/2009 01:42 PM wrote:
> 
> Those files are not architecture independent. They are somewhat similar
> to .o files. They contain the run time library for the language,
> compiled to native windows object files. If you want to compile your own
> program with them afterwards, they are linked together into a windows
> executable.
> 
> You could argue that they should belong in a -devel package. But since
> this package is a compiler, we decided not to split it up into a devel
> package and a non-devel package. As that would be pointless, as one will
> not work without the other.
> 


They should follow mingw's footsteps, shouldn't they?

/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
equals
/usr/x86_64-pc-fpc/sys-root/fpc/lib

??