[Lazarus] ARM, Cortex-A8 in Genesi Efika MX cloud computer

[Philip Cockram]

Hi,
Thanks alot for the info again,
yes, please upload the bins to somewhere and il try it
 
Thanks again
Phil.
 

> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:33:00 +0100
> From: henry.vermaak at gmail.com
> To: lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] ARM, Cortex-A8 in Genesi Efika MX cloud computer
> 
> On 28/09/11 16:15, Philip Cockram wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up,
> >
> > Dom and I have it compiling correctly from an i386 Ubuntu VM, and
> > running on the ARM Linux box, (that compiler option works fine -meabi=5)
> >
> > However I still would prefer to get it compiling on my windows box, I
> > have tried and failed several times to rebuild the binutils following
> > the guide at http://wiki.freepascal.org/Setup_Cross_Compile_For_ARM
> >
> > as its all for linux, alot of the commands don’t work, such as
> > "./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-werror".
> 
> You have to do a Canadian Cross. This is where the build, host and 
> target platforms all differ. On Debian, I install the mingw32 package, 
> which gives me the linux->mingw32 cross binutils/compilers. They are 
> called i586-mingw32msvc-*, so my binutils configure command is:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/arm-linux-eabi-win32 --target=arm-linux-eabi 
> --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-werror
> 
> You may have to adapt this if your cross tools have a different prefix.
> 
> Then a simple `make && make install` gets me binutils that I can copy to 
> my Windows machine.
> 
> > Nor can i find anywhere thats got some precompiled binutils in this state.
> 
> I can upload the binutils I've built somewhere for you to try out, if 
> you like.
> 
> Henry
> 
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