Hi all,

Tinkering with my bootstrap SVN updater/installer. Directory layout:

c:\development\binutils: as.exe, make.exe etc
Got these from
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/tags/release_2_6_0/install/binw32/

c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe
from
ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/i386-win32-ppc386.zip

c:\development\fpc: fpc fixes_2.6 source

When I run this command:
C:\development\binutils\make.exe
FPC="c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe"
--directory="c:\development\fpc" UPXPROG=echo COPYTREE=echo all

When I add c:\development\binutils to the path, it does seem to work.

How can I solve this, e.g.:
1. Would moving ppc386.exe to the binutils dir help?
2. Can I modify the path on the fly (I recall that will be difficult/impossible to do on Linux/OSX anyway)?
3. Is there some option I can pass to make to let it find the right binutils?
4. Something else I haven't thought about?

Thanks,
Reinier

Wooops... see inline

I get
Error: Assembler as.exe not found...
and make errors out

Reinier Olislagers wrote

3. Is there some option I can pass to make to let it find the right binutils?

You can pass CROSSBINDIR=/path/to/binutils.

Henry

P.S. I realise you're not cross compiling, but setting CROSSBINDIR should still add the directory to -FD.

Henry

Please, see this:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29

Marcos Douglas

Thanks Marcos,

Seen it. Don't exactly understand what you want me to do. Do you mean I should write a batch file to change the path? I'm using an FPC program to get the files, so that would be difficult...

Thanks,
Reinier

Thanks a lot, Henry,

That seems to work when testing "make all" on the command line; only caveat is that a trailing \ does not work, so I have to make sure I don't pass that ;)

However, when doing the same with make install:
C:\development\binutils\make.exe
FPC="c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe"
CROSSBINDIR="C:\development\binutils" --directory="c:\development\fpc" UPXPROG=echo COPYTREE=echo install

I get
....
C:/development/binutils/make.exe -C importtl install make.exe[4]: Entering directory `c:/development/fpc/utils/importtl' C:/development/binutils/ginstall.exe -m 755 -d //bin C:/development/binutils/ginstall.exe: cannot create directory `//bin': No such f
ile or directory
make.exe[4]: *** [fpc_install] Error 1
make.exe[4]: Leaving directory `c:/development/fpc/utils/importtl' make.exe[3]: *** [importtl_install] Error 2

Same error seems to happen when running make install without the CROSSBINDIR option; perhaps something wrong at my end. I'll delete the source directories and start over...

Amy tips?

Regards,
Reinier

The tutorial explain all about the compilation of FPC and Lazarus... I thought it was help you.

Marcos Douglas

It's trying to create the install directory. You probably want to provide it with a prefix of some sort to tell it where to do that. Use INSTALL_PREFIX.

Marco's buildfaq is a very good resource for building fpc:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/buildfaq.pdf

Henry

I assume that you're aware of the compiler option -FD (which can be passed to makefiles e.g. using "OPT=-FD..." or by having it in fpc.cfg unless using option -n too), right?

Tomas

Thanks, one of the reasons I'm writing this is because I keep forgetting what the build FAQ says, rereading it, getting confused and trying again ;)

I see I'm actually passing PREFIX=c:\development\fpc in the make install step in my code.... I guess I should change that to INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\development\fpc....

Thanks again,
Reinier

Thanks Tomas, though I glanced at it skimming the Build FAQ, hadn't paid attention.
Using OPT=-FDc:\development\binutils might be a good idea to use instead of Henry's CROSSBINDIR suggestion...

Thanks,
Reinier