[fpc-devel] about freepascal for mips

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Fuxin Zhang wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
>   I am Fuxin Zhang from lemote, now we are working on mips support of fpc.
> Hope you guys can help us to accelerate the process, a lots of users are
> waiting for this(see at the end of copied mail between me and Florian if
> interested).
>   Lemote can donate developer machines to who want to help.
> 
> And my progress and problems:
>   I've got the source from subversion and tried to build it in ubuntu
> 11.10 x86-64 machine. With the following patch and commands, I can get a
> partly working ppcrossmipsel(it can at least build a helloworld and
> runnable):
> patch:

> It seems that the PIC support for mipsel is somehow broken,to fix this I
> have to learn more about the ppc logic. Could you please fix it or give me
> some hints? I have some experiences on general compiler materials and
> quite familiar with low level things like as/ld etc.
> 
> To fix the linking issue, I've also tried to use -xgot option of as which
> can make use of an 32 bit got table, but it doesn't work. I think probably
> it works only with -fPIC.

Welcome to the list, it's nice to have you in here. I've still got a 
(non-MIPS) development system set up with this, so I'll at least try to 
build the current version.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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