How do I build windows ppcarm cross arm-linux fpc?

Regards,

Amit

The first step would be obtaining the correct binutils. In Linux I just install via urpmi. There are some instructions to build from source in the wiki. Maybe there are precompiled ones, but I dont know where.

After that you need a working install of FPC 2.4.2, download FPC 2.5.2 trunk from svn and make a batch script with some commands to build. You probably could just use the source from FPC 2.4.2 for that, but I usually use svn for no particular reason.

I dont know the exact commands, some months ago I started a thread about this in this mailling listbut for Linux->arm-linux and in the end I got a working command. The Windows one should be similar.

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote

The first step would be obtaining the correct binutils. In Linux I just install via urpmi. There are some instructions to build from source in the wiki. Maybe there are precompiled ones, but I dont know where.

I think Marco made these:

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/cross/binutils-2.20-arm-linux-elf.zip

Note that it calls the assembler with -meabi=4. You may have to change this.

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:

I use this wrapper for that

http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/install/cross/aswrapper.pas?root=fpcbuild&view=co&content-type=text%2Fplain

afaik the binutils are for eabi 0, and the wrapper changes it to 4. But that is a matter of changing the number and recompiling the wrapper.

For Android the good value is -meabi=5 which supports all devices in the market. And don't forget to build the cross-compiler with software floating point.