[fpc-devel] FPC 2.6 fixes error building arm wince

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Jonas Maebe wrote:

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> On 05 Nov 2013, at 18:04, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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>>> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
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>>>>> Does C:\Users\dimitris\Programming\Tools\fpc\2.6.x\source\utils\bin2obj.exe exist and is it executable? What happens if you try to execute it?
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>>>>> Yes it exists but doesn't regognized by the win 7 64 as an executable.
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>>>> It's probably an ARM/wince binary. You can probably work around the
>>>> problem by first performing a native build in the checkout directory (so
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>>> No, this is generally broken since r22079
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> The fact that it's broken since that release is not in contradiction with what I said. You can work around the problem introduced in that revision by first performing a native build, because bin2obj is only called if the css.inc file is out-of-date.
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>>> when a dependence on a just built binobj was introduced (rather than using a
>>> global installed data2inc as for similar cases before that).
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>> Hmmm. To my knowledge binobj is older than data2inc. I've been using it since version 0.x of FPC.
>> So why is it not installed ?
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> The problem is not that it's not installed. It's that you try to use the just-compiled version of that binary (by explicitly calling ../bin2obj), which may have been cross-compiled and hence non-functional on the current build system, rather than the globally installed one.

A valid point, easily fixable.

Michael.