fpcmake and Makefile.fpc, where can I get some training? [closed]

Question

I've never used any of these, but they are listed on the main Free Pascal site and I would really like to get my hands on:

• Beginners guide, to get me started
• Advanced guide, to help me grow

All this in case it's still used/standard.

Thanks

Answer 1

IMHO makefile.fpc is mostly FPC internal. I wouldn't use it for own projects.

The idea is that Makefile.fpc is combined with a template fpcmake.ini by running "fpcmake -Tall -w" to generate a GNU Makefile. The fpcmake.ini template is built in into the fpcmake binary.

Makefile.fpc is a file that has parameters for customizing the (fpcmake.ini) template, but can also add additional targets (in makefile format).

To my knowledge there is a paragraph about fpcmake somewhere in the documentation, nad the rest is usually learned by example, simple usage in packages/ and the more complicated examples are the toplevel makefile.fpc and the ones in compiler and rtl/