Re: Any interest in FreePascal support for FreeBSD/PowerPC64

Great idea! I know of your work in trying to get formal support for
PowerPC64.

Thanks for the support.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM Timothy Pearson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Awesome, nice work!  Now if only we could get the Go support I wrote
> upstreamed... ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Curtis Hamilton" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Timothy Pearson" <[email protected]>, "freebsd-ppc" <
> [email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 4:02:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: Any interest in FreePascal support for FreeBSD/PowerPC64
>
> > For all interested, PowerPC64 support has now been formally added to
> > upstream FreePascal repository:
> https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source
> > <https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source>
> >
> > To build:
> >
> > 1) clone the repository using git.
> >
> > 2) download prebuilt bootstrap (see below URLs)
> >
> > 2) cd to FPCSource (or whatever it was cloned)
> >
> > 3) execute:
> > Little endian: gmake all
> > FPC=“/wherever/you/put/bootstrap”/ppcppc64-3.2.2-FreeBSD-le
> > or
> > Big endian: gmake all
> > FPC=“/wherever/you/put/bootstrap”/ppcppc64-3.2.2-FreeBSD-be
> >
> > 4) install:
> > gmake install
> FPC=“/wherever/you/put/bootstrap”/ppcppc64-3.2.2-FreeBSD-(le
> > or be)
> >
> > Links to pre-built bootstraps:
> >
> > powerpc64 - big endian
> > link:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19eRpP2AXdyXDBBZopCQc9fs7ATvfiAHK?usp=sharing
> > bootstrap compiler: ppcppc64-3.2.2-freebsd-be.tar.gz
> >
> > powerpc64 - little endian
> > link:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13vCnelcWAEtwPgUpto0THdC0fATa79Mg?usp=sharing
> > bootstrap compiler: ppcppc64-3.2.2-freebsd-le.tar.gz
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM Curtis Hamilton <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the responses.  The compiler supports both LE and BE.  In
> fact,
> >> it works better on LE. I've used it to test build Lazarus and a few
> other
> >> graphics based applications.  There seems to be some endian issues on
> BE.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM Timothy Pearson <
> >> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> > From: "Curtis Hamilton" <[email protected]>
> >>> > To: "freebsd-ppc" <[email protected]>
> >>> > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:23:44 PM
> >>> > Subject: Any interest in FreePascal support for FreeBSD/PowerPC64
> >>>
> >>> > This started as a personal project several years ago.  I've achieved
> my
> >>> > goal of a working freepascal compiler.
> >>> >
> >>> > I thought I'd check to see if there are others interested in
> freepascal
> >>> > support for FreeBSD PowerPC64.
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards!
> >>>
> >>> I'd be interested!  Does it work BE only or also on LE?
> >>>
>