Hello,

It seams that Gnu assembler does produces object files compatible with CodeWarrior Linker, and fpc internal assembler does not. So, I would like to set the symbian compiler to always use GNU As.

On i_symbian I see those lines:

            assem        : as_i386_pecoff;
            assemextern  : as_gas;

Being that the assemblers are declared like this:

     type
       tasm = (as_none
             ,as_gas                   { standard gnu assembler }
             ,as_i386_as_aout
             ,as_i386_coff
             ,as_i386_pecoff
             ,as_i386_elf32
             ,as_i386_pecoffwdosx
             ,as_m68k_mit
             ,etc

Am I write to think that as_gas means using GNU As as external assembler, and that as_i386_coff is a Internal Assembler? So, to set fpc to always use external assembler, I would change those lines to:

            assem        : as_gas;
            assemextern  : as_gas;

And if not, what is the nice way of telling fpc to always use gnu as?

thanks,

Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 16:53, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho a écrit :

Doesn't it work with the -Aas flag (which tells to use GNU As assembler) ? It does for me with the x86_64 compiler.
If it does, you can put that setting into your config file to use it by default.

Dominique Leducq.

Probably correct. Just check the output of -va to see what it does.

thanks,

Leducq Dominique wrote

Doesn't it work with the -Aas flag (which tells to use GNU As assembler) ?

Thanks, but one must take into account that this is a question about compiler development, not compiler use.

Florian Klaempfl wrote

Probably correct. Just check the output of -va to see what it does.

Almost correct:

[1.813] Assembler i386-symbian-as.exe not found, switching to external assembling
[1.813] There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping [1.873] Compilation aborted

One easy way to solve is just copying as.exe to this name. Not sure if this is good enougth or I should try to override this name on the compiler.

Such a name is used if you are cross compiling (since you may have different cross compilers on your system which all require a different assemblers and linkers). So no, you should not try to override this name.

Jonas