Cross Compile with FPC for ARM: what changed
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| 1 | 1 | ## Overview | |
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| 3 | + | These instructions cover cross compiling to Linux on ARM. See [[arm-wince]] for instructions on cross-compiling to Windows CE on ARM. | |
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| 5 | 5 | ## Cross compile with FPC for ARM (e.g. Zaurus) | |
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| 7 | + | * First, setup a cross compilation environment; you can get more information about this here [[1]](<http://www.cartel-securite.fr/pbiondi/zaurus/crosscompile.html>), here [[2]](<http://www.nautilus6.org/operation/doc/wide-memo-nautilus6-zaurus-ccenv-setup-00.txt>) and here [[3]](<http://projects.buici.com/arm/cross/>). | |
| 8 | + | * Install the lastest native FPC [from sourceforge](<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339>) | |
| 9 | + | * get an ARM FPC snapshot from the downloads page of [FPC Qt Binding for Zaurus](<http://users.pandora.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/qtedemo.html>) | |
| 10 | + | * Download it to somedir. The name of the tar file may be different of course: | |
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| 12 | + | ``` | |
| 13 | 13 | cd somedir | |
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| 14 | + | tar zxvf arm-linux-fpc.i386-linux-20050217.tar.gz | |
| 15 | 15 | ``` | |
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| 17 | + | * you will find a 'lib/fpc/1.9.7/units/arm-linux/...' dir. The version may be '1.9.8' or higher. | |
| 18 | + | * create FPC library directory structure for FPC in a lib directory on your system | |
| 19 | + | * most systems use '/usr/local/lib', some use '/usr' | |
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| 21 | + | ``` | |
| 22 | 22 | mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/fpc/1.9.7/units | |
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| 23 | + | cp -fr lib/fpc/1.9.7/units/arm-linux /usr/local/lib/fpc/1.9.7/units/ | |
| 24 | 24 | ``` | |
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| 26 | + | * copy the FPC cross compiler to its default place | |
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| 28 | + | ``` | |
| 29 | 29 | cp lib/fpc/1.9.7/ppcarm /usr/local/lib/fpc/1.9.7 | |
| 30 | 30 | ``` | |
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| 32 | + | * set a soft link to it in a bin dir in your path | |
| 33 | + | * most distributions use '/usr/local/bin', some '/usr/bin' | |
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| 35 | + | ``` | |
| 36 | 36 | ln -sf /usr/local/lib/fpc/1.9.7/ppcarm /usr/local/bin/ppcarm | |
| 37 | 37 | ``` | |
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| 39 | + | * verify you can call ppcarm; it should return something like '1.9.7' and not 'command not found' | |
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| 41 | + | ``` | |
| 42 | 42 | ppcarm -iV | |
| 43 | 43 | ``` | |
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| 45 | + | * download [FPC 1.9.x ARM binutils](<ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v19/arm-linux/binutils.tar.gz>) to somedir | |
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| 47 | + | ``` | |
| 48 | 48 | cd somedir | |
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| 49 | + | tar zxvf binutils.tar.gz | |
| 50 | 50 | ``` | |
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| 52 | + | * copy the 2 programs in the tar to a bin dir in your path | |
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| 54 | + | ``` | |
| 55 | 55 | cp arm-linux-* /usr/local/bin | |
| 56 | 56 | ``` | |
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| 58 | + | * create a 'Hello World' program and compile it | |
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| 60 | + | ``` | |
| 61 | 61 | echo "program hello; begin writeln('Hello World'); end." > hello.pas | |
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| 62 | + | ppcarm -XParm-linux- hello.pas | |
| 63 | 63 | ``` | |
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| 65 | + | * output should be something like this: | |
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| 67 | + | ``` | |
| 68 | + | # ppcarm -XParm-linux- hello.pas | |
| 68 | 69 | Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.7 [2005/02/17] for arm | |
| 69 | 70 | Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl | |
| 70 | 71 | Target OS: Linux for ARM | |
| 71 | 72 | Compiling hello.pas | |
| 72 | 73 | Assembling hello | |
| 73 | 74 | Linking hello | |
| 74 | 75 | 1 Lines compiled, 0.2 sec | |
| 76 | + | ``` | |
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| 78 | + | * Copy it to the home directory of the user 'zaurus' on your zaurus device. | |
| 79 | + | * With an SSH setup this could be as simple as: | |
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| 81 | + | ``` | |
| 80 | 82 | scp hello zaurus:/home/zaurus | |
| 81 | 83 | ``` | |
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| 85 | + | * Install terminal program on your Zaurus. For a Zaurus SL6000: see manual on CD. | |
| 86 | + | * Run the terminal program. On a SL6000 the console will default to user 'zaurus' in its home dir /home/zaurus | |
| 87 | + | * Run the program | |
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| 89 | + | ``` | |
| 88 | 90 | ./hello | |
| 89 | 91 | ``` | |
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| 93 | + | * Output should be something like: | |
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| 95 | + | ``` | |
| 96 | + | Hello World | |
| 97 | + | ``` | |
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| 95 | 99 | --- | |
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| 100 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Cross Compile with FPC for ARM", as the Internet Archive kept it on 2022-08-07. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |