Re: building for Cortex M3

[Khem Raj <raj dot khem at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Allen Curtis
<ajcurtis@ac2enterprises.com> wrote:
> Hello Yann,
>
>>
>> On Monday 19 October 2009 23:10:11 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday 19 October 2009 22:51:46 Allen Curtis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to build a toolchain for the Cortex M3. The sample
>>>> configurations include a Cortex A8. Is it as simple as changing the A8
>>>> references in .config to M3?
>>
>> [--SNIP--]
>>>
>>> If all goes well, you should set the following:
>>> CT_ARCH_ARCH: armv7-m   (I'm not so sure about that one, if it fails,
>>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âleave the field empty)
>>> CT_ARCH_CPU : cortex-m3
>>> CT_ARCH_TUNE: cortex-m3
>>
>> OK, I just tested, it does not work. Error message is:
>> cc1: error: target CPU does not support ARM mode
>>
>> Both gcc and glibc complain, although the gcc build does not stop, and
>> happily goes on, even if the newly-built gcc is broken. Then glibc breaks
>> becasue the compiler does not support ARM mode...
>>
>
> Well, I took a shot on the glibc build problem and added -mthumb to the
> CFLAGS. It got past that problem and on to another in the same file.
>
> [ALL Â]
> Â/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/gcc-core-static/bin/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi-gcc
> Â Â version.c -c -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -O2 -Wall -Winline
> -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -mcpu=cortex-m3 -mlittle-endian
> -msoft-float -mthumb -mtune=cortex-m3 -Wstrict-prototypes   Â-I../include
> -I/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu
> -I/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles
> -I../ports/sysdeps/arm/elf -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi/nptl
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/eabi
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/nptl
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
> -I../nptl/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
> -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman
> -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv
> -I../ports/sysdeps/unix/arm -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix -I../ports/sysdeps/unix
> -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../ports/sysdeps/arm/eabi
> -I../ports/sysdeps/arm/nptl -I../ports/sysdeps/arm -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32
> -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/ieee754
> -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -I../nptl -I../ports Â-I..
> -I../libio -I. -nostdinc -isystem
> /home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/gcc-core-static/lib/gcc/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/4.4.0/include
> -isystem
> /home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/gcc-core-static/lib/gcc/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/4.4.0/include-fixed
> -isystem
> /home/acurtis/x-tools/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi//sys-root/usr/include
> -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h    Â-DHAVE_INITFINI
> -o
> /home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu/version.o
> -MD -MP -MF
> /home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu/version.o.dt
> -MT
> /home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu/version.o
> [ERROR] Â Âmake[3]: ***
> [/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu/sysdep.o]
> Error 1
> [ALL Â] Â Âmake[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> [ALL Â] Â Â/tmp/ccXKHoQe.s: Assembler messages:
> [ALL Â] Â Â/tmp/ccXKHoQe.s:152: Error: only SUBS PC, LR, #const allowed --
> `add pc,r3,#(0xffff0fc0-0xffff0fff)'
> [ERROR] Â Âmake[3]: ***
> [/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles/csu/libc-start.o]
> Error 1
> [ALL Â] Â Âmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/acurtis/work/targets/src/glibc-cvs-2.9/csu'
> [ERROR] Â Âmake[2]: *** [csu/subdir_lib] Error 2
> [ALL Â] Â Âmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/acurtis/work/targets/src/glibc-cvs-2.9'
> [ERROR] Â Âmake[1]: *** [csu/subdir_lib] Error 2
> [ALL Â] Â Âmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/acurtis/work/targets/arm-cortex_m3-linux-gnueabi/build/build-libc-startfiles'
> [ERROR] Â ÂBuild failed in step 'Installing C library start files'
> [ERROR] Â ÂError happened in
> '/opt/crosstool-ng/lib/ct-ng-1.5.0/scripts/functions' in function
> 'CT_DoExecLog' (line unknown, sorry)
> [ERROR] Â Â Â Â Âcalled from
> '/opt/crosstool-ng/lib/ct-ng-1.5.0/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh' at line #
> 341 in function 'do_libc_start_files'
> [ERROR] Â Â Â Â Âcalled from
> '/opt/crosstool-ng/lib/ct-ng-1.5.0/scripts/crosstool-NG.sh' at line # 544 in
> function 'main'
>
> Any Ideas???

try eglibc. It compiles and works when compiled in pure thumb2. I am
not sure about glibc.

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