Hi,

I noticed this change log on fpc svn:
florian 15472
* don't build a native compiler for embedded targets I sometimes build a native fpc on N900,
(sometimes because it takes some time)
Will this affect me if I do a 'svn up fpc' on the N900 ? When is a target considered embedded by the makefile?

native build cmd line is:
make clean all install PREFIX=/opt OPT='-gl -dFPC_ARMEL'

kind regards,

Den Jean

No.

When is a target considered embedded by the makefile?

When the target "operating system" is called "embedded". Linux embedded, so you are not affected.

Jonas

Devices without any operating system, i.e. mainly microcontrollers.

Florian Klämpfl wrote

Devices without any operating system, i.e. mainly microcontrollers.

thx Jonas and Florian, updating and compiling now.

fpc on arm related question,

when installing fpc, I need to install to /opt,
because /opt resides on a partition with enough free space. (This is normal on N900, it is called optify, do not know why /opt/bin is not in path.)

Then I need to symlink from /opt/bin/ to /usr/bin/ For now I just symlinked all fpc created files with a long script, but to shorten any upcoming instructions, which ones are needed to just compile fpc and lazarus. I know h2pas is not needed, but which ones are used for
compiling fpc and lazarus. What is 'mkarmins' (creates some files and gives runtime error)

Files linked now:
/opt/lib/fpc/2.5.1/ppcarm
and /opt/bin:

Files = [
'bin2obj',
'chmcmd',
'chmls',
'data2inc',
'delp',
'fd2pascal',
'fp',
'fpc',
'fpclasschart',
'fpcmake',
'fpcmkcfg',
'fpcres',
'fpcsubst',
'fpdoc',
'fppkg',
'fprcp',
'grab_vcsa',
'h2pas',
'h2paspp',
'makeskel',
'mkarmins',
'mkx86ins',
'plex',
'postw32',
'ppdep',
'ppudump',
'ppufiles',
'ppumove',
'ptop',
'pyacc',
'rmcvsdir',
'rstconv',
'unitdiff'
]

Just insert /opt/bin into the path?

It is only usefull for compiler development, it creates instruction tables for the yet unsed internal arm assembler.

this would mean editing a system file
like /etc/profile, I'd like to avoid that
in instructions, as apt-get upgrade might
not apply updates to modified system config
files as /etc/profile (I am not sure though, I am more familiar with urpmi that saves config files to *.new ->
meaning updates to config files are lost in order to preserve own modifications.)

I you look at the /usr/bin after a clean reflash,
it is full of links to several opt directories, apparently symlinking is the proper way.

is just ppcarm, fpc, fpcmake,fpcres enough ?

Den Jean wrote

are needed to just compile fpc and lazarus. I know

when trying to compile lazarus using native arm on N900, I get the errors below. There is no file lazarus.or (strange extension ??)

I manually tried some tests from svn/fpc/tests/test/units/system: (tres.pp,tres2.pp,tres2ext.pp,tres3.pp,tres3ext.pp,tres4.pp,tresext.pp) and checked the return value, all tests succeeded.

Someone any idea ?

Compiling idecmdline.pas
Assembling idecmdline
Assembling main
Assembling lazarus
Compiling resource ../units/arm-linux/lazarus.or
Error: Wrong token symbol: INLINE expected but Left found (at 1,2339, stream offset 0000002D)
lazarus.pp(123,42) Error: Error while compiling resources lazarus.pp(123,42) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted
make[2]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/mmc1/svn/lazarus/ide' make[1]: *** [ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/mmc1/svn/lazarus/ide' make: *** [ide] Error 2

Does it hurt to have more?

Florian Klaempfl wrote

> is just ppcarm, fpc, fpcmake,fpcres enough ? Does it hurt to have more?

not technically, as mentioned above I would
prefer not to have to instruct to create too many links.

Den Jean wrote

when trying to compile lazarus using native arm on N900, I get the errors below. There is no file lazarus.or (strange extension ??)

on i386 the file lazarus.or exists after compilation, copying it to arm device lazarus svn does not help manually compiling fpcres lazarus.res to lazarus.or works (well I get a lazarus.or different from the i386 svn) continuing compilation with a manually created lazarus.or does not work.

any idea would be welcome :-)