[Lazarus] Lazarus on Udoo quad (ARM device) ?

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 23/06/2014 10:02, Paul Breneman wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 02:28 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 22/06/2014 23:47, Anthony Tekatch wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am having some difficulty getting Lazarus installed on an Udoo SBC
>>> (ARM
>>> device).
>>>
>>> I installed "lubuntu 12.04 LTS armHF based" from here:
>>>    http://www.udoo.org/downloads/
>>>
>>> I installed FPC from here:
>>>    ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.4/arm-linux/
>> <snip>
>>> /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: In function
>>> `_haltproc_eabi':
>>> (.text+0x88): undefined reference to `_fini'
>>> /usr/lib/fpc/2.6.4/units/arm-linux/rtl/cprt0.o: In function
>>> `_haltproc_eabi':
>>> (.text+0x90): undefined reference to `_init'
>>> lazbuild.lpr(1742) Error: Error while linking
>>> lazbuild.lpr(1742) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
>>> Fatal: Compilation aborted
>>> make[2]: *** [lazbuild] Error 1
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/debian/lazarus/ide'
>>> make[1]: *** [lazbuilder] Error 2
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/debian/lazarus/ide'
>>> make: *** [lazbuild] Error 2
>>> $
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The FPC you downloaded probably does not support ARM HF. IIRC, none of
>> 2.6.x does, except that there's a version maintained by Debian with
>> patches.
>> You could try installing that or perhaps compile using FPC trunk
>> (manually or using a tool like fpcup [warning: fpcup author speaking ;)]
>> see here
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Odroid#Installing_FPC.2FLazarus_using_fpcup
>>
>> for instructions for installation on another ARMHF+*buntu device so that
>> should be quite usable)
> 
> Interesting, but why does my program compile OK using FPC 2.6.2 but
> fails using 2.6.4?
> 
> http://ctrlterm.com/ports.htm
> 
> I had the problem on 20 May 2014 and just reverted to 2.6.2 to avoid the
> problem?
Are you using an ARMHF OS?