[fpc-pascal] FPC for ARM

[Henry Vermaak]

On 19/12/11 11:16, Juha Manninen wrote:
> The compiler itself works but assembler is missing. See :
> ---
> root at ubuntu:/usr/share/doc/fpc-2.6.0/examples/text# fpc hello.pp
> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.0rc1 [2011/10/20] for arm
> Copyright (c) 1993-2011 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> Target OS: Linux for ARMEL
> Compiling hello.pp
> Assembling hello
> hello.pp(19,27) Error: Assembler as not found, switching to external
> assembling
> hello.pp(19,27) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> ---
>
> Does it mean an assembler is always needed with ARM? In my understanding
> x86 based PCs don't need a separate assembler with FPC.
> "apt-get install as" didn't install anything.

You probably have to install the binutils package.

Henry