[fpc-pascal] Re: Could use some help with DOS cross compile

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 21/10/2013 16:09, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
> On 10/21/2013 12:15 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 20/10/2013 20:14, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
>>> On 10/20/2013 08:12 PM, Nikolay Nikolov wrote:
>>>> On 10/20/2013 06:31 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> Ok, now I see you've put it in the fpc.cfg, but it could be that your
>>> compiler doesn't find the fpc.cfg or something similar. Try specifying
>>> -WmMedium on the command line when compiling and if you still get the
>>> same error, then probably you didn't recompile the RTL for medium model.
>> Thanks.
>> Decided to try with a batch file with some more cleanup etc [1].
>>
>> With this I hit this problem compiling the test program:
>> Assembling test
>> test.pas(12,24) Warning: Object system.o not found, Linking may fail !
>> ....(and so on for more .o files)
>> Error! E2008: cannot open system.o : No such file or directory
>> ...(and so on)
>>
>> I do notice a lot of .a files (system.a) etc in
>> C:\Development\fpctrunk\rtl\units\msdos but no DOS .o files there or
>> anywhere else....
> Ah, that's because you should always compile i8086-msdos programs with
> smartlinking, i.e. use the -XX option. Smartlinking uses the .a files,
> nonsmartlinking uses the .o files. The reason the .o files aren't

Ah, ok. Smartlinking fixed things.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Next stop: getting a patch in for Lazarus to add i8086 CPU and msdos OS