On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Simon Kissel wrote:
> Hi, > > after quite some time I thought to give FPC another try to see if it's > a suitable replacement for Kylix. > > My goal is to be able to cross-compile Linux elf targets from win32. > > So I downloaded and installed 1.9.6, and after that added the units > packages for Linux. > > Run up FP, compiled hello world, worked. Switched the target in FP to > linux, compiled again - and wow, it also worked. Using the verbose > output I could even see it using the Linux units etc. All fine. > > Until I examined the generated executable "hello". It looks like it's > a Linux binary packed into a PE file. Very weird. Doesn't run under > Linux of course, and does nothing under Windows. > > Next attempt was to use fpc directly: > > C:\pp\demo\text>fpc -Aelf hello.pp > Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.6 [2004/12/31] for i386 > Copyright (c) 1993-2004 by Florian Klaempfl > Target OS: Win32 for i386 > Compiling hello.pp > Linking hello.exe > 31 Lines compiled, 0.4 sec > > Well, no. > > Some advise on what to do would be very welcome. You can't do it using linux alone. You must install cross-target binutils. Specifically: the linker must create a linux binary instead of a Windows binary. Once you have those installed (there is a zip floating around somewhere) you must point the compiler to them with the -FD parameter. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
