Q: Is there a gpc/emx for emx09b already ?_(re)

Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:20:33 -0500 (EST)

Hi, all, hi Peter!
> > GPC doesn't like me anymore, though. It compiles, but linking doesn't seem to
> > work, I get stuff like:
> > rts-file.c:221 (e:/bin/emx/lib/gpc.a(rts-file.o)): Undefined symbol _write
> > refer enced from text segment
> > and lots of it. 
> 
> I think I know this error ...
> 
> I would guess that this comes from the fact that GPC does not only need
> the gpclib.a library but also gcclib.a. With Linux, I remember a similar
> problem arising from the installation of a new GCC-2.7.x C compiler and
> a conflict between a.out and elf versions of the libgcc.a library. We
> have solved it by installing a version of libgcc.a from GCC-2.6.3 in the
> lib path. 

I don't find it (libgcc.a). the closest I find is gcc.lib on 
my gcc 2.6.3 setup at work.  I am not at home right now, 
so I can't check.

> > but more interesting (and temporary relief!) is, that
> > gpc -c test.pas
> > gcc test.o -lgpc
> > does produce a working executable.
> 
> Again: strange. I have one idea: Perhaps your version of gcc can produce
> a.out as well as elf output files, and gcc knows the option to tell the
> linker the difference, while gpc doesn't. Well, try to install the old
> C compiler; if this solves the problem I think we know the origin of the
> error.

Well, I have indeed had success with gcc 2.6.3, but not with 2.7.2 anymore.
Being completely stupid I didn't just upgrade emx rts from 09a to 09b but
did the wole works (2.6.3 -> 2.7.2) assuming that's a VERY GOOD THING.
Maybe it wasn't. I'll restore my 2.6.3 and just put in the nwe emxrts
tonight. Or, maybe I live with the separate link step until a 2.7.2 version
is out?


> I think all these problems will disappear as soon as we will have a 2.7.x
> version of GPC. (But this is not my job. :-) Another suggestion would be
> to make GPC independend of the C runtime library, but include the required
> stuff into gpclib.a.

Is this how g77 does it with f2c.lib?

Oh -- by the way: What's the reasone for gpc/emx being >= 3 MB as opposed to
1.7 or so it was before? Is it the turbo stuff, or is it debug info that one
could safely strip out?  Cheers!  Stefan (also Dipl. Phys.)

PS: A last one: I see mail to gpc@hut.fi bouncing all the time. You too?



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