On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:25 +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi Florian and other friends > > I am involved in porting existing C code to Arm Linux for AT91SAM9263 Ek > board with 340x220 display. I need to write lots of console kinda apps. > > > I am using a "qemu-system-arm" emulated Armel Debian machine on a > > Debian x86 Lenny distro for writing code. I installed > fpc-2.2.0.arm-linux.tar on the emulated linux. > Which compiling a simple helloworld.pas , i get the classic error of > System.o being EABI 0 while target is EABI 4. > > > > I have got the svn download of fpc, and trying to compile it in the > emulated machine for ARM for the past 2 days. I have given :- > > make clean all ARCH=arm OPT="-CfSoft". > > Its compiling for quite long and finally comes to rest endlessly while > > > compiling system.pp. > > Let me remind you that i am dont use a Cross compiler, but an emulated > Arm machine. > > My boss and colleagues are 'C only' programmers . Doing all kinda > harware access for embedded devices using C. They have developed pretty > > > good & successful apps using pure C without an OS. What i have been > trying is to convice them to use Freepascal for the Application part, > which is presently console Apps. The next stage is to develop X apps > > > using Lazarus. But for these I need to get FPC working. > > Please help. > > regards > > Nataraj > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
sorry if this comes thru twice, I think I used the wrong email address before. this might help a little bit... http://www.klc.net.nz/linux/?page_id=13 I am still to complete it, there are some tricks to svn for arm that I haven't documented yet but it should give you a heads up. Terry also I noted afterwards you aren't crosscompiling... but its an option anyways, and lazarus / qt crosscompiles no probs (mostly). trick from clean svn (from memory) is to run fpcmake -Tall (2.2.0 version only - 2.3.1 doesn't work)) and when compiling fails on ffpkg or similar when installing to zip change into that folder and do the same. also although it creates an EABI 4 executable correctly there is a problem with fpc-svn/compiler/systems/t_linux.pas that sticks the wrong dynamic linker name in the file. I fixed it with this... {$ifdef arm} {$ifdef FPC_ARMEL} defdynlinker:='/lib/ld-linux.so.3'; {$else} defdynlinker:='/lib/ld-linux.so.2'; {$endif} {$endif arm} probably wrong but IWFM. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal