GDC ARM beta #1 (with binary releases!)

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 19:19:24 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:56:39 +0000
> schrieb "Jakob Ovrum" <jakobovrum at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 14:07:13 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> > I'm happy to announce the first GDC ARM beta on behalf of 
>> > the GDC
>> > team :)
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for the pre-compiled binaries! That really opens 
>> up ARM development for a much wider audience.
>> 
>> I'm encountering a problem with binaries built using the 
>> Windows-hosted cross-compiler; when trying to execute them on 
>> the ARM target, I get:
>> 
>> "bash: ./hello: No such file or directory"
>> 
>> The file is of course executable. What could cause this?
>
> That error message is indeed great ;-)
>
> It's one of the following:
> * hardfloat/softfloat mismatch between your arm system and
>   the cross compiler
> * glibc version on ARM system too old (<2.14)
> * linux kernel on ARM system too old (<2.6.32)
> * Other ABI mismatch
>
> Can you post some details about your ARM target? Linux 
> distribution and
> hardware/CPU are most interesting.

It's the OpenPandora 1GHz version, which has a TI DM3730 SoC. It 
runs Super Zaxxon (Pandora OS) which is based on Ångström 
GNU/Linux and runs kernel version 3.2.x.

The problem was indeed floating point - needed to be softfp. Now 
works, thanks!