Hi,

I was testing how bin arm-wince lcl applications are and wanted to test with smartlinking.

First try: using LD as linker
This didn't work, because even if I do make rtl OPT="-CX", no lib*.a files are created.

Second try: using internal linker, which presumably doesn't need the lib*.a files, but may not be working on arm-wince.
This failed with the errors below.

How can I created a smartlinked executable for arm-wince?

Vincent

Hint: Start of reading config file C:\FPC\2.1.1\bin\i386-Win32\fpc.cfg Hint: End of reading config file C:\FPC\2.1.1\bin\i386-Win32\fpc.cfg Warning: You are using the obsolete switch -OG
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.1.1 [2006/05/16] for arm Copyright (c) 1993-2006 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: WinCE for ARM
Compiling C:\DOCUME~1\VINCEN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\project1.lpr Compiling Unit1.pas
Assembling unit1
Assembling project1
Linking C:\DOCUME~1\VINCEN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\project1.exe project1.lpr(19) Error: Failed reading coff file, illegal reloctype $0003 while reading C:\DOCUME~1\VINCEN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\project1.o

<snipped a lot more>

project1.lpr(19) Fatal: There were 50 errors compiling module, stopping

Op Tue, 16 May 2006, schreef Vincent Snijders:

Please check this thread by Francesco Lombardi:

http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboards/message?message_id=227742&forum_id=24105

Daniël

The flag tf_smartlink_sections isn't set for WinCE yet. I set it now, maybe the WinCE people can check if things still work.

using -CX, rtl built fine .a are created
then progs compiled with $SMARTLINK ON
compile and run

Oro06 wrote

using -CX, rtl built fine .a are created then progs compiled with $SMARTLINK ON compile and run

Do you see any difference when you using smartlinking or not?

I tried the following test program:
================
program Project1;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

uses
Windows, Classes

   { add your units here };

begin
end.
================
Compiled with -Xs to strip debug info.

With -XX: 572 kB
With -XS: 572 kB

So, I doubt smartlinking is successful.

Vincent

How can I check this?

binutils is our friend :)

110% agreed , but imported functions are quickly checkable

arm-wince-pe-objdump -p MyTestProg.exe