[fpc-pascal] FPC for ARM
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Mon Dec 19 13:28:45 CET 2011
In our previous episode, Thomas Schatzl said:
> > 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.
>
> Afaik only the Windows platforms have an internal assembler and linker.
FreeBSD and Linux x86 and x86_64 have internal assembler, but not linker.
Though the FreeBSD/x86_64 internal assembler is only enable in trunk afaik.
Be careful with binutils on ARM though, there are multiple ABIs, and the
installed ones must match the device.
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