D on the Raspberry Pi

[Iain Buclaw]

On 3 July 2012 18:30, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:
> Am Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:57:39 +0200
> schrieb "Sönke Ludwig" <sludwig at outerproduct.org>:
>
>> On Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 13:06:05 UTC, Henry Robbins Gouk
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone has managed to successfully compile a
>> > GDC cross compiler to target the Raspberry Pi?
>> >
>> > I tried following the instructions found at
>> > http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/crosstool-ng but when I
>> > try the "ct-ng build" command I get the following output:
>> >
>> > [INFO ]  Performing some trivial sanity checks
>> > [INFO ]  Build started 20120613.010123
>> > [INFO ]  Building environment variables
>> > [ERROR]  Static linking impossible on the host system
>> > 'x86_64-build_unknown-linux-gnu'
>> > [00:02] / make: *** [build] Error 1
>> >
>> > Should I continue along the path of using crosstools to make a
>> > cross compiler, and if so; how? Or is there a better way to
>> > achieve my end goal of having a cross compiler targeting the
>> > Raspberry Pi?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help :-)
>>
>> I tried to build it as a cross compiler and on the raspberry
>> directly - and faild at both. On the raspberry I got a compiler
>> crash, and the cross compiler build process produced random
>> errors - it seems to be very fragile in terms of library versions
>> and such.
>>
>> ...so I would also be very interested in any sucess stories.
>
> Sorry, probably a stupid question, but could the build on the PI have
> died because of too little ram?
>
> Anyway, building a compiler on the raspberry pi worked for me, although
> it took a long time to build. I created a new wiki page with build
> instructions:
> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Raspberry%20Pi
>

I have a wiki at http://gdcproject.org/wiki   :-)


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Iain Buclaw

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