[fpc-devel] mips-linux and mipsel-linux snapshots available

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Will this work on other OS running on MIPS? How much work would it be to get
it going on OpenBSD for example?

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:07:16PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> >Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
> 
> >>This was caused by insufficient alignment of Double-typed temp
> >>variables, fixed in r23146.
> >>Moreover, it appeared that function UnixToWinAge wasn't doing
> >>anything useful since year 2005, so it was removed in r23145,
> >>making FindFirst/FindNext routines somewhat faster (and able to
> >>run without FPU).
> >>
> >>Now I am able to run the big-endian MIPS compiler on QEMU.
> >>Hoping you'll be able to reproduce it, too.
> >
> >I'll see what I can do, but I've not got any real hardware running
> >here which is causing me problems (Qemu performance isn't
> >brilliant).
> 
> Basic operation OK. There's a slight problem in that the build
> produces a directory /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.7.1/units/mips-linux while
> ppcmips running with the standard fpc.cfg expects .../mipseb-linux
> 
> Full build works with a standard set of parameters. Albeit slowly.
> Only peculiarity was that I had to copy the fpc binary manually
> before I could run  sudo make install
> 
> I'll try to run the test suite for both mipsel and mips(eb), but a
> higher priority has to be getting one of my SGI machines running.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Morgan Lloyd
> markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
> 
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