[fpc-pascal] can someone please email me a zipped hello world binary program MIPS big endian for testing on my MIPS hardware?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Dennis Poon wrote:
> Since I have spent days but still cannot produce a helloworld binary for 
> MIPS big endian, I need someone to to produce that for me so I can
> test it on my MIPS hardware.
> 
> I need to know at this stage whether a FPC produced program compiled for 
> MIPS (big endian) can actually run on my hardware.
> If that result is negative, I shall need a totally different approach.

I've just checked and I have big- and little-endian "Hello, World!" 
programs natively-compiled that run on Debian Linux on Qemu. I can send 
either or both if it would help, but I'd caution that they date back to 
around Xmas last year and something /could/ have changed with the 
compiler since.

Big endian (on appropriate system):

$ file test
test: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-II version 1 (SYSV), 
statically linked, stripped
$ ./test
Hello, World!

Little endian (on appropriate system):

$ file test
test: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-II version 1 (SYSV), 
statically linked, stripped
$ ./test
Hello, World!

/But/ I've got a vague recollection that somebody else had problems 
running on some router or other, which is one of the reasons why I fired 
things up at the end of last year and did some careful builds. I can't 
remember exactly where that one got to- I suggest that you look back 
through the fpc-devel and fpc-pascal archive.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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