[fpc-pascal] FPC for ARMv4

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.03.2014 12:03, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>
> On 05 Mar 2014, at 19:41, Jon wrote:
>
>> I have a board running Linux - it reports itself as armv4tl:
>>
>> root at phidgetsbc:~# uname -a
>> Linux phidgetsbc 3.1.6 #3 PREEMPT Fri Jan 6 13:05:50 MST 2012 armv4tl 
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> root at phidgetsbc:~# cat /etc/issue
>> Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l
>>
>>
>> After trying and failing to install a cross-compiler on my Linux x64 
>> system, I want to install FPC directly onto the system.
>>
>> Can you advise the best procedure. After downloading and installing 
>> fpc-2.6.2.arm-linux.tar I get errors:
>
> That compiler is probably built for ARMv6, so it's normal that it 
> doesn't work on your system. Additionally, you first have to determine 
> the ABI in use on your system. To do so, run "objdump -p /bin/ls" and 
> have a look at the "private flags" section near the end.
>
> If it contains "EABI", then you have to build an EABI cross-compiler 
> (compile the ARM compiler with -dFPC_ARMEL in the make OPT parameter), 
> otherwise you have to build an old ABI cross-compiler (compile the ARM 
> compiler with no specific parameters in the make OPT parameter, but 
> add -Cfsoft to CROSSOPT to ensure the created native compiler uses 
> software floating point).
According to fpcdefs.inc the default should be EABI since October 2011 
(revision 19562). The old ABI needs "FPC_OARM".

Regards,
Sven