[fpc-pascal]cross compiler potential ?
Harald Houppermans
houppermans at home.nl
Sun Jun 29 02:10:33 CEST 2003
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikolay Nikolov" <nickysn1983 at netscape.net>
To: <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]cross compiler potential ?
> Harald Houppermans wrote:
>
> > A step by step tutorial how to create such a cross compiler would be
> > quite handy :D
> >
> > 1. Where do I get binutils from windows to linux ? Compiling it myself
> > seems impossible... so many errors I am ready to give up on that.
> > ( I tried mingw and cygwin, both with no luck )
> >
> > 2. What do I do after I have bin utils from windows to linux. ?
> >
> > Later.
> >
>
> Never done that, but in theory it should happen this way (I think :) )
>
> you need binutils for linux (elf) target, compiled for windows. you
> don't need all of the binutils, only the linker - "ld". (and also "as" -
> the assembler, but it's not really necessary since free pascal can use
> NASM instead, you can download it from nasm.sourceforge.net)
>
> suppose you have ld.exe (for linux target), and nasm, you should install
> free pascal for win32, then download free pascal for linux, extract it
> to some directory and copy the RTL and the other units to
> c:\pp\units\linux (suppose fpc is installed in c:\pp which is the
default)
>
> then compile for linux with:
> fpc -TLINUX -Anasmelf filename.pas
>
> I have only cross-compiled units this way, not programs, since I don't
> have the linker from binutils - "ld", and fpc needs it to create an
> executable binary for linux.
>
> Isn't it just simpler to install linux on your pc? (I mean linux is
> free, etc... that's why there are many resources on the web for
> cross-compiling from linux to windows or even from linux to dos and
> (almost) nothing for windows-->linux)
> And you'll need linux for testing your programs anyway, because there
> are differences. :)
>
> for tcp/ip you can use the sockets unit which is implemented on both
> windows and linux.
Ok, I have now compiled the binutils-2.14 successfully I believe. ( using
cygwin )
I need exact instructions what to do now...
What do I do with the new ld.exe and as.exe ?
Overwrite old, save them ? replace ? what ??? :)
Ok... I already have linux source of free pascal etc...
I go do that...
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