On Fri, January 13, 2012 16:48, waldo kitty wrote: > On 1/13/2012 05:40, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> On Fri, January 13, 2012 11:27, waldo kitty wrote: >>> >>> i've a problem with os2260full... i bit the bullet and wiped my old os2 >>> 2.4.0(?? or 2.4.2???) install... now none of my projects compile... >>> they >>> complain about "Error: Can't call the assembler, error -1 switching to >>> external assembling"... . . >> This should be easy to fix (FAQ item, in fact ;-) ). > > really? i haven't found a FAQ document that covered this... at least > nothing > that was "in your face" with this specific problem... but maybe i don't > know > where to look :/
http://www.freepascal.org/faq.var#os2-as-failing (also available as h:\fp\2.6.0\doc\faq.htm on your machine now ;-) ). >> Nevertheless, in order to determine the reason, please do the following: . . >> 2) Check your PATH and LIBPATH (especially the latter) settings to >> contain >> a reference to the DLL directory in your FPC installation. > > ahhh... now /THIS/ might be the ticket... when the install completed, > there was > a box on the screen that said to make sure that the PATH and LIBPATH > contained > the proper text and it specifically said what that text should be... so i > dutifully copy'n'pasted it into the editor i had config.sys opened in... > saved > and closed everything and rebooted... > > when i looked at it just now, the LIBPATH is set to h:\fp\2.6.0\bin\dll > when it > should have been set to h:\fp\2.6.0\dll... i had noted this difference > when i > made the edit because it should have been a simple modification of the > existing > 2.4.2 entries... Strange. Looking at the installer sources, I don't understand how it could behave that way. I'll recheck it and let you know the results. . . > the point of ready for someone to interact with it... OK, so now it gets > further... the error now is "Error: Error while linking"... > > [time passes] > > ok, i figured out how to compile with -s and then i ran the ppas.cmd > file... it > apparently has completed successfully... i do have a bright shiny new exe > file... now to figure out what's wrong with the normal way that fp does it > as > compared to the way fpc is doing it... You may want to check the differences between fp.ini and fpc.cfg. Also, if you have an OS/2 version of the tool 'which' (available e.g. from http://silk.apana.org.au/utils.html or as an internal command within 4OS2 shell if you use that one), you might want to check a possible difference in path returned for 'which as' and 'which ld'. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
