Re: [ECOS] Problem with loader call using arm-elf-gcc

[Robert Brusa <bob dot brusa at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:22:20 +0200, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:12:58PM +0100, Bart Veer wrote:
> > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Brusa <bob.brusa@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     > arm-elf-gcc -g  -nostartfiles -Wl,--gc-sections
> >     > -T"../at91lib/boards/at91sam7x-ek/at91sam7x256/flash.lds" -o
> >     > bin/My5-at91sam7x256-flash.elf obj/board_cstartup.o obj/main.o
> >     > obj/stdio.o obj/dbgu.o obj/pio.o obj/board_memories.o
> >     > obj/board_lowlevel.o
> >
> > You are using the wrong argument to arm-elf-gcc: you should use
> > -nostdlib, not -nostartfiles. In the absence of -nostdlib the linker
> > will try to use the standard newlib C library instead of eCos, and
> > that library has been stripped from the eCos toolchain build to reduce
> > the download size. You also appear to be using a non-eCos linker
> > script, which will also cause problems. Please read the eCos User's
> > Guide to find out how applications should be linked with eCos.
>
> Hi Bart
>
> He is not using eCos, just the eCos toolchain. I'm guessing he wanted
> a prebuild ARM toolchain and stumbled upon the eCos one and tried to
> use it for his application.
>
>     Andrew

Hi Andrew and Bart
both of you are right. I plan to go for eCOS, but firstly I want to build,  
run and debug a simple program. Just to make sure these tools are doing  
what I intend them to do. Read: That I understand how to handle these  
tools. Obviously, the task is more intriguing than I anticipated :-(

Because Andrew said, that building a arm-elf-toolchain is not so  
difficult, I am now doing exactly this. Firstly, I download gcc-4.3.0 from  
a mirror site and now I am reading the instructions. It's not so simple  
either..... :-(  Actually I had to install quite a few new things and in  
some cases, the tools provided by aptitude are not up to the job, because  
they are of an older version. I installed them anyway, but will probably  
have to come back to this issue. I am going on with good hope.....
thank you and best regards robert

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