[fpc-devel] Setting the compiler to always use gas

[Leducq Dominique]

Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 16:53, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> It seams that Gnu assembler does produces object files compatible with
> CodeWarrior Linker, and fpc internal assembler does not. So, I would
> like to set the symbian compiler to always use GNU As.
>
> On i_symbian I see those lines:
>
>             assem        : as_i386_pecoff;
>             assemextern  : as_gas;
>
> Being that the assemblers are declared like this:
>
>      type
>        tasm = (as_none
>              ,as_gas                   { standard gnu assembler }
>              ,as_i386_as_aout
>              ,as_i386_coff
>              ,as_i386_pecoff
>              ,as_i386_elf32
>              ,as_i386_pecoffwdosx
>              ,as_m68k_mit
>              ,etc
>
> Am I write to think that as_gas means using GNU As as external
> assembler, and that as_i386_coff is a Internal Assembler? So, to set
> fpc to always use external assembler, I would change those lines to:
>
>             assem        : as_gas;
>             assemextern  : as_gas;
>
> And if not, what is the nice way of telling fpc to always use gnu as?
>
> thanks,

Doesn't it work with the -Aas flag (which tells to use GNU As assembler) ?
It does for me with the x86_64 compiler.
If it does, you can put that setting into your config file to use it by 
default.

Dominique Leducq.