[Lazarus] RE : lazarus for arm-linux

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Ludo Brands wrote:
>>> I was able to procure fpc-2.4.4, and install it on the arm-linux 
>>> machine. I also checked-out Lazarus from the link you gave; and ran 
>>> "make bigide".
>>>
>>> It ran fine for a while, but then termintaed, with the following 
>>> error ::
>>>
> 
>>> What could I try? I may have been very stupid in missing something :|
>>>
>>
>> Compiling lazarus with fpc 2.6.0 worked for me on arm debian sid. Fpc 
>> 2.6.0
>> is in the debian sid repositories but can also be found here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/2.6.0/. Lazarus 
>> from
>> debian sid repo (0.9.30.2) isn't working correctly. Some patches to 
>> correct
>> alignment errors didn't make it in that release. Lazarus from svn 
>> works fine
>> though.
> 
> I'm setting off a trial compilation of 2.6.0 hosted on ARM Debian 
> "Squeeze", which will take a few hours. If that is OK then I'll try 
> Lazarus 0.9.31 plus your patches- I'm not sure that it's appropriate to 
> go straight to trunk for this but if anybody is confident that a 
> particular revision is robust please say and I'll use this in preference.

In case it's still relevant: 2.6.0 + 0.9.31 with the align_all.diff 
patch from http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19109 appears OK. 
I've not tried 2.6.0+trunk on account of how long a full build takes.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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