Help port FPC to PPC64 and win a PowerMac G5

[WILL]

The Free Pascal compiler team has justannounced that the Free Pascal compiler has been selected to participate in IBM's Linux On Power contest.

"The goal is to create a port for Linux running on PowerPC 64 bit processors. The current compiler already contains support for Linux running on 32 bit PowerPC's and there is already a port for x86-64, so all the basics (PowerPC, Linux and 64 bit) are present."

They state that this is not going to be some trivial task as they would have easily done it themselves. Mind you, for the prize offered, I think that it is worth the time and effort if you truely would like to develop for the Power PC under Free Pascal.


For more details visit the Free Pascal site or IBM's Linux on Power site.
You can see the newsletter announcement here.

[Incubii]

could i suggest changing the headline from

PPC

to

PPC64

as that is known as the G5 series and above. PPC refers to G4 and below. only a niggle, but you dont call X86-64 an X86

[WILL]

Good point... changed.