[fpc-pascal] is there a ready to use FPC Cross compiler x86-Linux -> MIPS-linux?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 15.06.2013 19:19, Dennis Poon wrote:
>>
>> I eventually found this page which talked about downloading a special
>> toolchain from openwrt web site
>>
>> http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=61112
>>
>> I followed its instruction and successfully compiled a helloworld c
>> program and
>> successfully RUN the helloworld binary on Netgear 3700 running DD-Wrt !
>>
>> I was overjoyed.
>>
>> Then I tried to modify the steps to compile fpc
>>
>> my toolchains  is at /home/dennis/toolchains/staging_dir_mips/bin/
>> and in this folder, there are files: mips-linux-ar  and mips-linux-as
>> so I
>> make clean all CPU_TARGET=mips OS_TARGET=linux
>> BINUTILSPREFIX=/home/dennis/toolchains/staging_dir_mips/bin/mips-linux-
> 
> It seems not to be your problem, but your arguments are not entirely 
> correct (and it "works" just by accident). BINUTILSPREFIX is *only* the 
> prefix of the binaries, in your case "mips-linux-". The path must be 
> passed as CROSSBINDIR like so: 
> CROSSBINDIR=/home/dennis/toolchains/staging_dir_mips/bin
> And did you choose the correct endianess? Aka CPU_TARGET=mipsel or 
> CPU_TARGET=mipseb?
> 
> Maybe you could try to fiddle around with the arguments passed to 
> mips-linux-as by hand. This means take the command below and try to get 
> the prt0.as file to assemble:
> 
> /home/dennis/toolchains/staging_dir_mips/bin/mips-linux-as -32 -mips32 
> -EB -o /home/dennis/fpc/2.7.1/rtl/units/mips-linux/prt0.o mips/prt0.as
> 
> (current directory should be /home/dennis/fpc/2.7.1/rtl/linux )

That's probably a uClibc toolchain, one of the known issues is that it 
has to load the right .so file on the target. The big question is 
whether it also implies that there has to be special support for the 
Atheros (Broadcom?) target in the RTL.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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