bignums, gmp, bytestring, .. ?

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:46:10 -0500,
Peter Tanski wrote:

> What is the problem building GMP for PalmOS?  According to the GMP  
> install documentation, it supports ARM and Motorola's m68k  
> processors, so you would not be using generic C code.  You are  
> probably also using PRC-Tools, correct?

Yes. I can not get past the configure step. I tried to build gmp 4.2.1
with prc tools 2.3. I ran configure with these options:

./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu --host=m68k-palmos

But, all the test programs (conftest.c) fail to link because they use
'main ()', but palmos expects 'PilotMain ()'. I hack the configure
script and changed all occurances of 'main ()' to 'PilotMain ()', but
then it failed beacuse the test programs could not find
MemoryMgr.h. So I invoked configure with:

CFLAGS=-I=/root/n-heptane/projects/haskell/palmos/sdk-5r3/include/ ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu --host=m68k-palmos

But now it fails to find working compiler with this error (from config.log):

configure:7756: checking build system compiler m68k-palmos-gcc -I=/root/n-heptane/projects/haskell/palmos/sdk-5r3/include/ 
configure:7769: m68k-palmos-gcc -I=/root/n-heptane/projects/haskell/palmos/sdk-5r3/include/  conftest.c
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/2.95.3-kgpd/libgcc.a(_exit.o)(.text+0x10): In function `exit':
libgcc2.c: undefined reference to `_cleanup'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/2.95.3-kgpd/libgcc.a(_exit.o)(.text+0x16):libgcc2.c: undefined reference to `_exit'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

And, around this time, my interest in running yhi on PalmOS starts to
wane.

j.

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