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[pedro alves]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Chad J wrote:
>> Manfred Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i have try to compile void main() {}
>>>
>>> but i get the following error message:
>>> hansen at manni-lx:~/dd$ arm-wince-pe-gdc hello_arm.d -o hello_arm
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s: Assembler messages:
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:6: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized 
>>> character is `@'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:7: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized 
>>> character is `@'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:8: Error: too many memory references for `mov'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:9: Error: no such instruction: `stmfd 
>>> sp!,{fp,ip,lr,pc}'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:10: Error: too many memory references for `sub'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:11: Error: no such instruction: `bl __gccmain'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:12: Error: expecting operand after ','; got nothing
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:13: Error: too many memory references for `mov'
>>> /tmp/ccx3xcRb.s:14: Error: no such instruction: `ldmfd sp,{fp,sp,pc}'
>>>
>>> Under debian sarge and under ubuntu 6.0.6 I have copy the 
>>> arm-wince-pe directory to /usr/local and i have extended
>>> the PATH Variavble.
>>>
>>> Manfred
>>
>> Argh, I can't replicate it, even when I move it my other system.  The 
>> catch is that I've used both systems to develop this, so maybe there 
>> is a missing dependency that I don't know about.
>>
>> Btw, I compiled and used this on kubuntu 6.0.6.  The other system is 
>> coLinux running Debian.
>>
>> In a while I'll make another coLinux Debian w/ fresh filesystem, and 
>> see how that goes.
>>
>> Those error messages look like the ones I got when the arm-wince-pe 
>> assembler was given x86 assembly code.
>
> Now I'm no cross-compiling expert, but that last statement would back 
> up my first thought: did you build arm-wince-pe binutils to go with 
> your arm-wince-pe-gdc? In particular arm-wince-pe-gas?
> Maybe only on one system (that being the one where it works)?

That sure looks like it. That is arm assembly on the error log, and '@' 
is the comment char on arm assembly,
and it is also the first character the assembler is complaining about.

Isn't there a gdc -v switch to show what commands are being invoked?

Cheers,
Pedro Alves