[fpc-devel] Building and running FPC natively on ARM under Debian "Lenny"

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:

> I've requested an account on the GCC compile farm 
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm, anyone contributing to any free 
> software project can do so), and I guess that at least one of their ARM 
> machines will also support OABI binaries.

If you don't get anywhere I might be able to help, although I'm not 
going to pretend that it would be convenient since I'd have to re-flash 
a Slug which would mean that I could no longer use it as an emergency 
fallback system. Things would be far easier if there were still such 
things as ARM-based workstations, i.e. booting from an external device 
(USB or whatever) rather than internal Flash.

The boards I've got are made by iEi, but you get either CE or Linux- not 
both. I'm hoping to be able to hack OpenFirmware onto a CompactFlash 
card which would give it much the same interface as Suns and PPC-based Macs.

> Maybe the easiest is to simply download 
> http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/rtl/linux/arm/syscall.inc?revision=16073&pathrev=16073 and 
> replace  the rtl/linux/arm/syscall.inc file in the 2.4.0 source tree 
> with that file. There are no FPC version-specific changes to that code.

Noted, I'll report back presently.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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