[fpc-devel] Questions about cross-compiling (z80)

[BogDan]

Hi,


Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Adding ihxutil to path fixed the problem.
But the size problem is stil there, a simple 2 lines of code "begin; end."  generates over 32k of code. That code should not generate more than 8 bytes of code.
Are there any flags that I need to use to make the code smaller?

Cheers,
BogDan.



On Friday, February 11, 2022, 03:14:46 PM GMT+2, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote: 





BogDan via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Fr., 11. Feb. 2022, 11:09:
> Hello,
> 
> According to https://wiki.freepascal.org/Z80 fpc is able to compile pascal code for z80.
> Sadly I'm a newbie on fpc, therefore I have a few questions:
> 
> 1. I changed a bit the build script from https://wiki.freepascal.org/Z80#Building and I managed to build fpc, and when I built a simple hello world file, the resulted tzx file seems wrong:
>  ./ppcrossz80 -n -Tzxspectrum -PZ80 -Fu/path/to/fpc/lib/fpc/3.3.1/units/z80-zxspectrum/rtl -viwn -CX -XX test.pas
> 
> $ cat test.tzx
> :105CF800314CEA0188E0214DE6373FED423E000293
> :105D0800032BBD20FABC20F7FD2288E0F31100FE2A
> :105D180021FDFD7AED477D121C20FC141236C321AB
> ....
> 
> It seems is an IHX format not tzx
> Also the result for a simple hello world is way too big (over 20k) !
> I assume that I'm passing wrong params to ppcrossz80. What params should I use? Where I can find more info on this matter?

You need to make sure that the ihxutil built in utils/ihxutil/<hostcpu>-<hostos>/ is available in PATH, so that the compiler will do the conversion. 

>  
> 2. Is it possible to add z80 cross compilation target to FP IDE? The FP IDe shows me a few targets, but z80 is not there.
> 

The text mode IDE can only ever compile for one CPU platform, so you need to build it for Z80. Though I don't know right now whether this is enabled. 

Regards, 
Sven 
>  

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