Haiku specific Release Engineering

Haiku is unix like enough to use the Freepascal's unix scripts to generate a binary distribution.

Getting fpcbuild repository

Get sources, download the fpcbuild from ftp and extract it or use a command like:

 svn export http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/tags/release_2_0_2 fpcbuild

Getting binaries for debugging support in the IDE

At the time of writing, a package containing the needed files is available here : [1]

While you can compile gdb on your own, the easiest way (by far) under Haiku is to build Haiku yourself.

Then, you can collect all the needed files in the build tree :

• libgdb.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gdb/gdb
• libbfd.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gdb/bfd
• libiberty.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gdb/libiberty
• libopcodes.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gdb/opcodes
• libreadline.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gdb/readline

• libintl.a in generated/objects/haiku/x86/release/bin/gawk/intl/

• libgcc.a in /boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc2/tools/gcc-2.95.3-haiku-081024/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-haiku/2.95.3-haiku-081024 (you may have to adapt the path to the installed gcc version on your machine).

Getting documentation

Get the most recent docs package from the ftp site, it's called docs-pdf.tar.gz and copy it into the fpcbuild/ directory.