Hi,

I found the cross-compiling to difficult to setup under Linux, so instead I decided to setup a VirtualBox with Windows XP. I have installed FPC 2.3.1 (2.4.0rc1 actually), setup my fpc.cfg file. I then checked out the latest Lazarus trunk.

I then did a 'make all' inside the lazarus directory and all compiled fine until the end when I got the following error. Any ideas what is causing that error?

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Compiling idecmdline.pas
Compiling resource C:\Lazarus\ide\lazarus.rc
Compiling resource ..\units\i386-win32\lazarus.or
Linking ..\lazarus.exe
lazarus.pp(130,1) Error: Error reading coff file, can't read object data lazarus.pp(130,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted
make[2]: *** [lazarus.exe] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `C:/Lazarus/ide'
make[1]: *** [ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Lazarus/ide'
make: *** [ide] Error 2
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I have binutils installed, but it might be a old copy and I'm not sure if that is what is causing the problem. The exact same versions of FPC and Lazarus compile fine under Linux, so I'm pretty sure it's not a code bug in the repository revision.

When can I download the latest pre-compiled binutils for Windows? Is that actually what this error means?

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

I found the cross-compiling to difficult to setup under Linux, so instead I decided to setup a VirtualBox with Windows XP. I have

Sorry, that should be VirtualBox with Windows 2000 installed.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Hi,

When can I download the latest pre-compiled binutils for Windows? Is that actually what this error means?

<RootPath>\binutils\arm-wince (from
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/crossbinwce) <RootPath>\binutils\i386-win32 (from
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/binw32) <RootPath>\binutils\x86_64-win64 (from
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/binw64) <RootPath>\fpc
<RootPath>\fpc\source (from
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_2_4_0_rc1 )

This is what i use in windows ...

regards,

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote

<RootPath>\binutils\i386-win32 (from http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/binw32) This is what i use in windows ...

Thanks for the links. In the mean time I waisted more bandwidth and downloaded the 0.9.28.2 release from SourceForge, and then simply replaced the compiler with the 2.4.0rc1. Everything seems to work okay now, but I haven't tried to recompile the Lazarus IDE though.

Regards,
- Graeme -