[fpc-pascal] Issue with Linking

[Chris Moody]

On 08/20/2015 07:11 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 20/08/15 16:03, Chris Moody wrote:
>> Assembling dentist
>> Linking Dentist
>> /usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
>> /home/pi/fpc-2.6.4/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: In
>> function `_haltproc_eabi':
>> (.text+0x88): undefined reference to `_fini'
>> /home/pi/fpc-2.6.4/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: In
>> function `_haltproc_eabi':
>> (.text+0x90): undefined reference to `_init'
>> Dentist.pas(106) Error: Error while linking
>> Dentist.pas(106) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
>> Fatal: Compilation aborted
>> Error: /usr/bin/ppcarm returned an error exitcode
> Does the compiler also say "Target OS: Linux for ARMHF"?
>
>> That is the result of: fpc Dentist.pas -Fusource/lib
>> -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux
> If you need -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux, that means the
> configuration file (/etc/fpc.cfg) has not been generated properly. It
> should have been generated when you installed fpc.
>
> Secondly, do you have a file called /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/crti.o
> ? That is the file containing the _init and _fini symbols. FPC for ARMHF
> will automatically search /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ for that file if
> libc is linked and add it to the linker script.
>
> If you don't have that file, install the libc6-dev package (sudo apt-get
> install libc6-dev). I would expect the fpc package to depend on that though.
>
>
> Jonas
>

I see that the target is:

Target OS: Linux for ARMEL

I do have /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/crti.o

I don't need to specify -Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux

is the target os the issue?

Chris