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## 5.6 Crossbuilding a compiler.

Using a cross-compiler to build GNU Pascal results in a compiler binary that runs on the cross-target platform. This is called "crossbuilding". A possible reason why anybody would want to do this, is when the platform on which you want to run the GNU Pascal compiler is not self-hosting. An example is mingw32.

To crossbuild GNU Pascal, you have to install a cross-compiler for your target first, see section 5.5 Building and Installing a cross-compiler.

As when building a cross-compiler, configuration and compilation of the compiler can be done using the scripts ``cfgpc'` and ``mkgpc'` which are included in the source distribution in the subdirectory ``p/script'`. Please call them with the ``-h'` option for instructions.

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