On Sunday 19 Oct 2014 02:32:49 peter green wrote: > Paul Michell wrote: > > I'm currently trying to build 2.7.1 from SVN on the latest Raspbian > > (2014-09-09). > > I've previously built this with either 2.6.0 from the repository, or with > > Thaddy de Koning's build from March 2014. > > > > Currently, neither of these will build 2.7.1 on a Raspberry Pi. So I have > > also tried with the generic arm-linux > > release archive (fpc-2.6.4.arm-linux.tar). This installed without error > > and I can compile projects on the Pi with it. > > > What errors are you getting when you try to build with the fpc from the > repository.
I'm sorry, I didn't record them at the time. I will need to re-run it later this week to find out. > > Have you tried the 2.6.2 version from raspbian jessie? No, I thought 2.6.0 was the latest FPC on raspbian? > I should probablly get arround to doing a raspbian version of 2.6.4. Yes please :) > > However, when trying to build 2.7.1 (make all) it creates a compiler > > binary, but fails whilst compiling fpmake. > > This looks similar to the bug 0024056 which is flagged as resolved. The > > solution suggested there is to install > > build-essential, but this is installed by default on Raspbian, so I think > > there must be something else wrong? > Most likely you are trying to build an armel compiler rather than an > armhf one. Yes you are right, it does produce armel by default > It may be possible to bootstrap an armhf compiler off an armel one with > the right settings but it's something I haven't tried in a while. That is what I was intending to try. Previously I have used Thaddy's armhf build as my seed compiler. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
