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Re: Trying to build crosscompiler for ARM
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Thomas Martitz <thomas dot martitz at student dot HTW-Berlin dot de>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:21:31 -0700
- Subject: Re: Trying to build crosscompiler for ARM
- References: <4AE39D0E.8060009@htw-berlin.de>
Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@student.HTW-Berlin.de> writes:
> I first tried to build gcc (the entire collection) 4.4.2. I soon
> noticed that I should rather pick the gcc-core-4.4.2 package to avoid
> problems with gcc expecting glibc stuff (crti.o missing, for example).
> Anyway trying to compile this gives me a quite confusing "Link test
> not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES" error.
This is more-or-less normal when trying to build libstdc++ with a
toolchain configured without a library. Are you sure you did a
completely clean configure in an empty directory after going back to
gcc-core? What was being built when you got that error?
> So I went back to 4.4.1 which I successfully compiled a while ago
> already. In fact, none of the above problems appeared and compilation
> went OK. But now I have a even more strange problems. I just can't get
> unwind exceptions out!
>
> configure line is: --target=arm-elf-eabi --enable-languages=c
> --disable-libssp --disable-libunwind-exceptions.
The configure option --disable-libunwind-exceptions has been
ineffective for several releases now. The option name was changed
because it was poorly chosen. The option is now called
--with-system-libunwind. The option does not control whether or not
gcc generates unwind information; it controls whether gcc uses the
separately distributed libunwind library or whether it uses the unwind
library which is built into gcc itself.
> But no matter how often I compile actual code (rockbox svn which is an
> open source firmware for mp3player that does not use any standard libs
> (no glibc, newlib or uclibc)), when I try to compile actual code I get
> loads of errors:
>
> arm-elf-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-elf-eabi/4.4.1/../../../../arm-elf-eabi/bin/ld: error: no memory region specified for loadable section `.ARM.extab'
This is telling you that your linker script uses memory regions say
which region .ARM.extab should be in. Certainly the easiest approach
is to assign memory regions as you did.
> LD rockbox.elf
> /home/kugel/.rockbox/compiler/arm-elf-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-elf-eabi/4.4.1/arm9tdmi/libgcc.a(unwind-arm.o): In function `get_eit_entry':
> /build/build-gcc-core-4.4.1/arm-elf-eabi/arm9tdmi/libgcc/../../../../gcc-core-4.4.1/libgcc/../gcc/config/arm/unwind-arm.c:614: undefined reference to `__exidx_start'
This should be defined in -lgcc. Are you linking against -lgcc? Does
it define that symbol?
> Clearly this unwind stuff is still there despite of my
> --disable-unwind-exceptions.
--disable-unwind-exceptions does nothing here. Check which files
contain .ARM.extab sections and compile them with -fno-unwind-tables.
It may just be a few of the gcc startup files which were compiled with
an explicit -funwind-tables. Or -funwind-tables may be the default,
although I don't see anything making that be the case for ARM EABI.
Ian