[fpc-devel] Defines layout for mips

[Marc Weustink]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> I see that mips is progressing =) I added a ppmipsel.lpi file which
> builds a cross-compiler here, but I haven't yet managed to build the
> compiler from the makefiles or the rtl.
> 
> For the RTL I tryed:
> 
> C:\Programas\fpctrunk\rtl\linux>make fpc_units CPU_TARGET=mipsel OS_TARGET=linux
>  OPT='-s'
> make: *** No rule to make target `../mipsel/mips.inc', needed by `system.ppu'.
> Stop.
> 
> I searched, but I didn't find what would need to be fixed to get a
> target for mips.inc ... any ideas?

mipsel is not ready yet, even if you copy mips.inc from ../mips and you 
fix prt0.as and touch the right .as files and you have the 
crossbinutils, then still not all abstract methods of the compiler are 
implemented, resulting in:

Free Pascal Compiler version 2.5.1 [2009/12/06] for mipsel
Copyright (c) 1993-2009 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for MIPSEL
Compiling system.pp
Fatal: Compilation aborted
An unhandled exception occurred at $080AEE50 :
EAccessViolation : Access violation
   $080AEE50
   $080A2326
   $080A1D1F
   $080A23BE
   $0817DC73
   $0817FC5F
   $08180D4C
   $0816C6DF
   $080680EC
   $08048296

make[2]: *** [system.ppu] Error 217

So I guess we need to be patient.

Marc