[fpc-devel] cannot compile fpc 2.6.0 for mips

[Sven Barth]

On 07.01.2012 10:09, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 07.01.2012 06:33, schrieb Andrew Haines:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to build a cross complier for mips-linux and met this error:
>>
>> make crossinstall PP=/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/ppcx64 OS_TARGET=linux
>> CPU_TARGET=mipsel
>> ....
>> make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fcl-web'
>> ./fpmake clean --localunitdir=../.. --globalunitdir=.. --os=linux
>> --cpu=mipsel -o -Pmipsel -o -XPmipsel-linux- -o -Xr -o -Ur -o -Xs -o -O2
>> -o -n -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/rtl -o
>> -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/hash -o
>> -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/paszlib -o
>> -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fcl-process -o
>> -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fpmkunit -o -FE. -o
>> -FUunits/mipsel-linux -o -dmipsel -o -dRELEASE
>> --compiler=/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/compiler/ppcross
>> An unhandled exception occurred at $0000000000423596 :
>> EInstallerError : Invalid CPU name "mipsel"
>>    $0000000000423596
>>    $000000000042BEC1
>>    $000000000042B70C
>>    $000000000042E015
>>    $000000000043BE2B
>>    $000000000043BE67
>>    $0000000000400278
>>
>> make[4]: *** [clean] Error 217
>>
>> Anybody know which version of fpc supports mips the best?
>
> trunk, however mips was never in a working state in svn.

This looks more like a problem of fpmake though. Because the mips CPUs 
are missing in fpmkunit.pas (and at least the target OS "nativent" is 
missing as well btw.).

Regards,
Sven