Re: Cross-compiling GLib 2.18 with arm-linux.

[Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>]

2009/3/23 John Peterson <j0hnp comcast net>:
> Hello – I’m not sure I’ve got the right mailing list for this question, but
> I thought I’d try.
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> I have downloaded glib-2.18.0 on Linux FC4, and am trying to cross-compile
> with an arm-linux-gcc compiler.  Most of the stuff goes smoothly until I hit
> the atomic_spin_trylock in the gatomic.c file.
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> This function has some embedded assembly (denoted with the asm keyword).
> The particular error that I get is:
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> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile arm-linux-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS
> -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION -DPCRE_STATIC
> -DG_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -pthread -mbig-endian -std=c99 -Wall -MT
> gatomic.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gatomic.Tpo -c -o gatomic.lo gatomic.c
>
> arm-linux-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\"
> -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION
> -DPCRE_STATIC -DG_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -pthread -mbig-endian -std=c99
> -Wall -MT gatomic.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gatomic.Tpo -c gatomic.c -fPIC -DPIC
> -o .libs/gatomic.o
>
> gatomic.c: In function `atomic_spin_trylock':
>
> gatomic.c:570: `asm' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> gatomic.c:570: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>
> gatomic.c:570: for each function it appears in.)
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> gatomic.c:570: parse error before "volatile"
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> I’m guessing that my arm-linux-gcc compiler is not compatible with the
> embedded assembly directive, and that’s why I’m getting the error.  However,
> I thought I’d check to see if maybe there was some other setting that might
> make this work.

Which arm compiler are you using? I've tried with codesourcery and
scratchbox2... glib builds fine.

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Felipe Contreras