[fpc-devel]Linking problems with fpc cvs

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:03:36 +0200 (CEST)
Michael.VanCanneyt at wisa.be wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a linking problem with the current fpc cvs (fixed branch) under
> > linux.
> >
> > For example doing a 'make linuxzip' results in the following linker
> > error:
> >
> > [...]
> > make -C net all
> > make[5]: Entering directory `/home/[...]/108/fpc/fcl/net'
> > [...]
> > /home/[...]/108/fpc/compiler/ppc386 -XX -CX -Xs -OG2p3 -n -S2h
> > -Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/rtl/linux
> > -Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/packages/base/netdb-Fu/home/[...]/108/fpc/packag
> > es/base/libasync -FE../linux -di386 -dRELEASE mkxmlrpc.pp
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find libppaswrite.a
> > mkxmlrpc.pp(774) Error: Error while linking
> > make[5]: *** [mkxmlrpc] Error 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/[...]/108/fpc/fcl/net'
> > make[4]: *** [net_all] Error 2
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > The created fcl/linux/ppas.sh script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > DoExitAsm ()
> > { echo "An error occurred while assembling $1"; exit 1; }
> > DoExitLink ()
> > { echo "An error occurred while linking $1"; exit 1; }
> > echo Linking ../linux/mkxmlrpc
> > /usr/bin/ld    -s -L. -o ../linux/mkxmlrpc ../linux/link.res
> > if [ $? != 0 ]; then DoExitLink ../linux/mkxmlrpc; fi
> >
> > The libppaswrite.a is in fcl/linux/, the same directory where ppash.sh
> > is. The ppas.sh is executed with the same working directory as the
> > compiler. Therefore the -L. can't find the library.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Yes, remove the -XX -CX -Xs options.
> Then it should work fine (At least here it does).

Thx. I will try. Although I don't know where they were added.
Maybe the docs know ...


Mattias