[fpc-pascal] Access violation during compilation and linking

[C Western]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Roland Turcan wrote on do, 12 mrt 2009:
>
>> <<< 12.3.2009 10:09 - Jonas Maebe "jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be" >>>
>> JM> Roland Turcan wrote on do, 12 mrt 2009:
>>
>>>> Can I build FPC with debug information to get more details where the
>>>> exception occured and not to get only addresses from stack, but
>>>> nothing more.
>>
>> JM> You can build it with
>> JM>    make OPT='-O- -gl"
>>
>> JM> to include debug information and the lineinfo. This will 
>> symbolise the
>> JM> stack trace when it crashes (or if that does not work, you can then
>> JM> run it in gdb and use the "bt" command to show a stack trace when it
>> JM> crashes).
>>
>> I have longer time a difficulty to solve this message when I try to
>> build fpc with "sudo make clean all":
>>
>> Makefile:2279: *** No libgdb.a found, supply NOGDB=1 to disable
>> debugger support.
>>
>> of course, then I use "sudo make clean all NOGDB=1" and it builds
>> fine, but without debugger support I need.
>>
>> I am a newbie to MacOSX 10.5 and therefore I would like to ask how to
>> install libgdb.a library which is requested.
>
> I don't understand this: the message you show only appears when 
> building the text mode IDE, and the text mode IDE is not built for Mac 
> OS X (unless you manually go into the IDE directory and execute make 
> there).
>
> The error message about "no debugger support" means that there will be 
> no internal debugger in the IDE. It does not mean that the units or 
> the compiler do not contain debug information.
>
> You do not need libgdb.a (unless you want to build the text mode IDE 
> with internal debugger support on Mac OS X, but then you are on your 
> own -- this is not tested/supported/planned).
Try:
sudo make clean all NOGDB=1 DEBUG=1

The makefile probably needs some adjusment to not try and build the text 
mode ide on platforms for which it is not supported

Colin