Setup Cross Compile For ARM

Cross Compile with FPC for ARM (e.g. Zaurus)

• first, setup a cross compilation environment; you can get more information about this can be found here [1], here [2] and here [3].
• install the lastest native fpc
• download FPC 1.9.x ARM snapshot to somedir
• the archive contains a lib tree which should be extracted to /usr/local

cd /usr/local; tar -xvzf <path to archive>/arm-linux-fpc.i386-linux.tar.gz

• set a soft link to the ppcarm:

ln -s /usr/locl/lib/fpc/1.9.7/ppcarm /usr/local/bin/ppcarm

• download FPC 1.9.x ARM binutils to somedir

tar zxvf binutils.tar.gz

• tar contains arm-linux-as arm-linux-ld
  

cp arm-linux-* /usr/bin
echo "program hello; begin writeln('Hello World'); end." > hello.pas
ppcarm -XParm-linux- hello.pas

• my output was:

Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.3 [2004/04/05] for arm
Copyright (c) 1993-2004 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for ARM
Compiling hello.pas
Assembling hello
Linking hello
1 Lines compiled, 0.1 sec

• copy it to your zaurus. I have ssh setup so just scp hello zaurus:
• install terminal program on your Zaurus. For a Zaurus SL6000: see manual on CD.
• run terminal program

su
chmod +x hello (I did not need to do this)
./hello

• my output was:

Hello World