To: marc DOT hoffman AT spd DOT analog DOT com (Marc M. Hoffman)
Cc: hume.den.mmc.com!jrivera AT spd DOT analog DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Gnu Pascal with DJGPP 
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 15:11:45 EST
From: Bob Doolittle <rad AT Think DOT COM>
Status: O

    
       Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 13:54:02 EST
       From: Bob Doolittle <Think.COM!rad AT uunet DOT uu DOT net>
    
    
           I have built the 386 compiler on my sparc and my only problem is
           with the linking.  I can't get the linker to work.  I belive
           that part of the problem to the linker is that I'm fairly lazy
           and don't have enough time.  The tools work fine as cross tools
           but you will need to hack the makefile so that the gen files
           don't get compiled by your cross tools.  This all works fine but
           I have to link on the PC!
    
           If anyone has the cross linker or knows what I have to do I
           would like and information leading to successfully building the
           gnu linker for the PC.
    
       I had the exact same problem.  I even tried building it for a Vax
       and trying it there (on the assumption it was a byte-ordering snafu)
       to no avail.
    
       Somebody mentioned that Dr. Dobb's Journal recently ran a series of
       articles on cross-compiling with GCC, and dealt with byte-ordering
       problems, but I don't have access to these back issues.  Perhaps you
       will have better luck.
    
       Please let me know if anyone comes up with a solution.
    
       Thanks,
           Bob
    
    Are you tinkering with the beta version of the binutils?  This is
    suppose to work but I think that we need to spend a little time in
    specifying a configure script for a CROSS to a 386 under GO32.  I think
    it can be done in a day but I don't have the time.

First of all, if you want to continue this discussion, I suggest you not
copy djgpp, since most people probably aren't interested.  Anyone who is
should send mail to one of us to be included in this thread, or if they
have any information that might shed light on this problem.

Yes, I tried the beta-1.94 binutils (I think I tried 1.9 as well, I
thrashed on this for a while).  GCC 2.0 came out the week after I gave up
so I wasn't using it (I used 1.40) and I don't know if it would help.  I
presume that's what you're using so probably not.

To tell you the truth, I was doing this in a *slightly* different context;
I was trying to build 386 objects for Linux, a PD Unix for 386 machines,
but the issues you mentioned earlier should be similar (except that djgpp
is sufficient for me under DOS so I don't need to worry about cross-linking
GO32, but I can't imagine it should be a big deal.  I think a day is
*grossly* overestimating the work required, but I know how these things go
and you could be right).

-Bob

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Bob Doolittle
Thinking Machines Corporation
rad AT think DOT com
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