ANYBODY: The SPARC mirror pages have a 3.0.2 MIPS binary on them.
On 11/03/17 22:00, Pierre Free Pascal wrote:
If you are adventurous,you might want to try the experimental files
in:ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/test-cross-3.0.2/
it does contain a partial installer for sparc-linux,cross-compiled on a
x86_64-linux machine.
The results using qemu-sparc are not that bad,considering the fact that no one
is really actively testing or even maintaining this CPU target.
It would be glad to get feedback if it works for you,for instance if you are
able to generate a full nativeinstallation from the 3.0.2 sourcesusing this
cross-tar.gz file.
Most of the issues in SPARC were a result of the architecture's
insistence on accurate data alignment, which TBH I think is something
worth testing on occasion. I think there was a residual problem in the
Lazarus help display, but apart from that it was pretty good when I last
looked.
Going back to a couple of the OP's questions:
> I noticed there is no binary FPC 3.0.2 Linux release for SPARC.
> > Should it be possible to compile it for SPARC, possibly using the
> > older binary 2.6.2 release?
If 2.6.2 is the last available then you'll first need to build 2.6.4 and
use that to build 3.0. Or you might need to use a development version as
an intermediary. If you're up to getting a fairly recent Linux running
on SPARC then I'd say that a bit of compilation and source tweaking is
well within your capabilities :-)
I should have at least one system that I can fire up to check what I
changed, but most of our SPARCs have been pensioned off- certainly the
ones up to running a fairly big compilation. Even the desktop systems
were hungry and noisy by today's standards.
> If it has a> DVD-ROM and a video board, it should be easy to install
> > Linux on it, is that correct?
Equally easy using a serial terminal, which sidesteps Sun's "Oops, we've
lost the graphics board documentation" problem.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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