Hi,

I was trying to build a cross complier for mips-linux and met this error:

make crossinstall PP=/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/ppcx64 OS_TARGET=linux CPU_TARGET=mipsel
....
make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fcl-web' ./fpmake clean --localunitdir=../.. --globalunitdir=.. --os=linux --cpu=mipsel -o -Pmipsel -o -XPmipsel-linux- -o -Xr -o -Ur -o -Xs -o -O2 -o -n -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/rtl -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/hash -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/paszlib -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fcl-process -o -Fu/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/packages/fpmkunit -o -FE. -o -FUunits/mipsel-linux -o -dmipsel -o -dRELEASE
--compiler=/home/andrew/programming/fpc-2.6.0/compiler/ppcross An unhandled exception occurred at $0000000000423596 : EInstallerError : Invalid CPU name "mipsel"
$0000000000423596
$000000000042BEC1
$000000000042B70C
$000000000042E015
$000000000043BE2B
$000000000043BE67
$0000000000400278

make[4]: *** [clean] Error 217

Anybody know which version of fpc supports mips the best?

Regards,

Andrew

trunk, however mips was never in a working state in svn.

This looks more like a problem of fpmake though. Because the mips CPUs are missing in fpmkunit.pas (and at least the target OS "nativent" is missing as well btw.).

Regards,
Sven

If you progress beyond my effort described at
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Native_MIPS_Systems please update the page accordingly.

Florian Klämpfl wrote

> Anybody know which version of fpc supports mips the best? trunk, however mips was never in a working state in svn.

The basic compiler works and some of the RTL compiles, but the tweaks necessary are highly tentative since I don't fully understand e.g. the subtleties of some of the CG defines and are only described at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Native_MIPS_Systems since I've not asked anybody to commit the changes.

I've worked through some of the stuff but have stalled at the assembler reader, which forced me off onto an exercise of reading up on the MIPS ABI etc. whence I never really returned.