[fpc-devel] OS/2 build problems

[Tomas Hajny]

On 7 Apr 07, at 9:34, Dave Parsons wrote:

Hi Dave,

> I don't get as much time as I would like to work on FPC
> but I try at least to update from svn every week and to
> try to build the compiler.
> Using 2.0.4, it has always built ppc1.exe but failed to
> build ppc2 and this week's error is rather different.
> 
> <snip>
> F:/fpc/fpcbuild/fpcsrc/compiler/ppc1.exe -Ur -Xs -O1r -n -Fui386 -Fusystems -Fu.
> ./rtl/units/os2 -Fii386 -FE. -FUi386/units/i386-os2 -dRELEASE  -di386 -dGDB -dBR
> OWSERLOG -Fux86 pp.pas
> emxbind 0.9d -- Copyright (c) 1991-1997 by Eberhard Mattes
> emxbind: invalid a.out file (startup code)
> pp.pas(207,27) Error: Error while linking
> <snip>
> 
> So, this is really just a sanity check, is this as good as
> it gets at the moment for OS/2 or do I have a configuration
> problem somewhere.

It's the former - as good (or as bad :/ ) as it 
gets at the moment. I managed to get little bit 
further with fixing the import library related 
stuff for OS/2 (after changes performed in 2.1.x) 
about 3 weeks ago, which is the reason of the 
changes in log. As of now, the ancient EMX ld.exe 
dies silently while trying to link more complex 
executables (like the compiler), whereas simple 
ones (including those with import libraries, of 
course), are generated and work correctly. I need 
to spend more time analyzing the generated object 
files (including the import libraries), but my 
time is rather limited too.

Tomas