On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joost van der Sluis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op maandag 24-11-2008 om 12:04 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Graeme >> >> 1) I see it's generating a i386 compiler and not a x86_64 compiler??? >> Maybe that's because I copied my 32bit FPC 2.2.3 directory to the >> 64bit server? > > No, that's because you used a 32-bit start-compiler
That's what I meant... :-) >> 2) No idea what the error means. I do have a /usr/lib/crti.o file. But >> maybe that's due to the server being 64bit and FPC is generating a >> 32bit executable. > > Indeed. Run 'file /usr/lib/crti.o' and you'll see :-( >> 3) Can I bootstrap a 64bit FPC without any previous FPC compiler? I >> don't want to download 35MB's FPC 2.2.2 just to recompile 2.2.3 > > You only need the file 'ppcx64' or you have to cross-compile. But > cross-compiling from 32bit to 64bit is a bit hard, and if I remember > correctly even not possible for all versions of fpc. Based on (1)'s answer, using a 32bit start compiler I thought I would try my hand at cross-compiling which I have never done before. :-) After a few attemps using the following command line, I noticed it keeps looking for the cross-compler versions of 'as' and 'ld'. eg; 'x86_64-linux-as' I knew that the standard 'as' command is the correct one, because I'm on the 64bit system. I created a bin directory in my $HOME and added it to $PATH. I then created symlinks to resolve the new cross-compiler binutils names. make CPU_TARGET=x86_64 OS_TARGET=linux FPC=/home/graemeg/programming/ppc386 cycle After running the above command, I finally ended up with a 'ppx86' executable. I'll now try and build the whole FPC with that. :-) Lets hope all goes well! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
