Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

falstaff

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« on: 17 / April / 2012, 19:11:30 »

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Hello,

My goal is it to help porting CHDK to the S100 Firmware, since I'm soon going to own one :-). Today I tried compiling CHDK on my Linux Mint system. I'm using GCC 4.4.3 with Binutils 2.18. I created a toolchain script based on the one I found on this Wiki entry: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Gcc433. Compiling the toolchain succeeded, and I started compiling CHDK svn (r1808) using make and a "localbuildconf.inc" which definies PATH, PLATFORM and PLATFORMSUB. At the end, I get this error:

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>> Entering to core/modules
../module_exportlist.c -> exportlist
../gui_fselect.c -> ../gui_fselect.o
../nothumb.c -> ../nothumb.o
-> fselect.elf
-> fselect.flt
In file fselect.elf:
point not to the __div0. Something unusual.
make[2]: *** [fselect.flt] Error 8
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Any idea? I found this error in a question in another thread, but no solution was posted in response.

As far as I understand things, this error comes from the elf2flt tool (see tools/elf2flt/elf-arm.c). It seems my compiler generates R_ARM_PC24 like Win arm-gcc. Is this what I want? Can I change this type somehow?

Thanks for any pointers.

falstaff

« Last Edit: 17 / April / 2012, 19:13:50 by falstaff »

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waterwingz

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #1 on: 17 / April / 2012, 19:54:03 »

You could try compiling the stable branch instead ? It does not use loadable modules so you should not get that error.

http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/chdk/branches/release-1_0/

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c10ud

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #2 on: 18 / April / 2012, 06:55:43 »

I'm able to compile the trunk version just fine with these compilers:
host compiler:
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3
arm compiler:
$ ./arm-elf-gcc-4.3.3 --version
arm-elf-gcc-4.3.3 (GCC) 4.3.3

Make sure you're exporting proper paths.
Also, you might be unaware that S100 already has been ported (by me), see here: http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=7887.0 and here http://www.mighty-hoernsche.de/trunk/ for autobuilds.

Ofcourse there's still (always?) something todo (see notes.txt), but that really depends on what you're going to use CHDK for.

greets

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falstaff

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #3 on: 18 / April / 2012, 16:28:39 »

@c10ud: Yeah I'm aware of that. As far as I've read, autoboot isn't yet working, right? Thats a feature I plan to use...

My versions are

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$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1
$ arm-elf-gcc --version
arm-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.4.3

I just tried to compile S95 firmware using release 1.0 and trunk. On release 1.0, compile works, but on trunk I get the same error.

vnd had this error too, see here:
http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=847.msg78648#msg78648

Any ideas?

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srsa_4c

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #4 on: 18 / April / 2012, 16:40:13 »

Quote from: falstaff on 18 / April / 2012, 16:28:39

@c10ud: Yeah I'm aware of that. As far as I've read, autoboot isn't yet working, right?

As far as I know, the "firmware update" boot method is the one that is not working ATM.

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I just tried to compile S95 firmware using release 1.0 and trunk. On release 1.0, compile works, but on trunk I get the same error.

vnd had this error too, see here:
http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=847.msg78648#msg78648

Any ideas?

I think you could just use a precompiled toolchain (extracted to a separate folder), for example the 4.5.1 one from http://forum.chdk-treff.de/download_chdkde.php

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falstaff

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #5 on: 18 / April / 2012, 16:55:38 »

Thanks that worked! Although, it would be nice if my toolchain created according to the documentation from the wiki mentioned in the first post would work too :-)

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srsa_4c

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #6 on: 18 / April / 2012, 17:01:23 »

Quote from: falstaff on 18 / April / 2012, 16:55:38

Thanks that worked! Although, it would be nice if my toolchain created according to the documentation from the wiki mentioned in the first post would work too :-)

Are you by any chance using the x64 edition of your OS? That may be related, I guess.

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falstaff

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #7 on: 18 / April / 2012, 18:22:04 »

Yes, I'm using Mint Linux 64-bit. Fortunately Ubuntu and thus Mint using multiarch, the 32-bit compiler from above works...

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waterwingz

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #8 on: 18 / April / 2012, 18:29:47 »

Quote from: srsa_4c on 18 / April / 2012, 17:01:23

Are you by any chance using the x64 edition of your OS? That may be related, I guess.

I'm using 64 bit Fedora to build with no problems.

Quote from: falstaff on 18 / April / 2012, 16:55:38

Although, it would be nice if my toolchain created according to the documentation from the wiki mentioned in the first post would work too :-)

Yes, it would. Is there any way you can compare the two setups ?

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reyalp

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Re: Compiling CHDK on Mint Linux using GCC 4.4.3

« Reply #9 on: 19 / April / 2012, 00:05:50 »

Quote from: falstaff on 18 / April / 2012, 16:55:38

Thanks that worked! Although, it would be nice if my toolchain created according to the documentation from the wiki mentioned in the first post would work too :-)

Yes.
Comparing the output of arm-elf-gcc -v between the two might provide some hints.

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