[fpc-devel] FreePascal on ARM Linux ,SoftFloat and EABI issues

[Yury Sidorov]

From: Nataraj S Narayan
> Hi Florian and other friends
>
> I am involved in porting existing C code to Arm Linux for 
> AT91SAM9263 Ek board with 340x220 display. I need to write
> lots of console kinda apps.
> I am using a "qemu-system-arm" emulated  Armel Debian machine on a
> Debian x86 Lenny distro for writing code. I installed 
> fpc-2.2.0.arm-linux.tar on the emulated linux.Which compiling a
> simple helloworld.pas , i get the classic error of System.o  being 
> EABI 0 while target is EABI 4.
>
> I have got the svn download of fpc, and trying to compile it in the 
> emulated machine for ARM for the past 2 days.  I
> have given :-make clean all ARCH=arm OPT="-CfSoft".Its compiling for 
> quite long and finally comes to rest endlessly
> while compiling system.pp.Let me remind you that i am dont use a 
> Cross compiler, but an emulated Arm machine.

Try to crosscompile fpc 2.2.1 or 2.3.1 compiler binary and then use 
this binary as starting compiler on arm machine.

Yury.