HPGCC3 - discussion and troubleshooting

[ramon_ea1gth]

After reading about HPGCC and NewRPL for some time, and testing in my HP50g some HPGCC2 programs from hpcalc.org, I decided it was time to give HPGCC3 a try, as the idea to use C in the HP50g looks awesome.

I'm following the Installation instructions, written by Claudio and I guess I'm close to it, as I was able to run the install_plugin.sh script in Eclipse.
Now I'm stuck at Chapter 3, 'Building the libraries', trying to build the project make_rom.

Most of the project gets built (I guess). But I get an error when coping the file thumb/libgcc.a as shown below:

Code:


14:38:51 **** Incremental Build of configuration Debug for project install_all ****
make all 
Creating target directories...
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/include
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/rom
cp /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/libgcc.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib/libarmgcc.a
cp /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/thumb/libgcc.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib/libgcc.a

Checking the contents of that directory, there is no libgcc.a available, but under the directories:

Code:


user@:~$ ls /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/thumb
nofp  v7-a       v7e-m     v7+fp       v7ve+simd        v8-a+simd  v8-m.main+dp
v6-m  v7-a+fp    v7e-m+dp  v7-m        v8.1-m.main+mve  v8-m.base  v8-m.main+fp
v7    v7-a+simd  v7e-m+fp  v7-r+fp.sp  v8-a             v8-m.main

So just to test, I copied updir nofp/libgcc.a to make it available to the builder, as seen now:

Code:


user@:~$ ls /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/thumb
libgcc.a  v7-a       v7e-m+dp  v7-r+fp.sp       v8-a+simd     v8-m.main+fp
nofp      v7-a+fp    v7e-m+fp  v7ve+simd        v8-m.base
v6-m      v7-a+simd  v7+fp     v8.1-m.main+mve  v8-m.main
v7        v7e-m      v7-m      v8-a             v8-m.main+dp

After this, the building continued successfully (?) until trying cp romentries.list /home/user/hpgcc3/lib, because romentries.list doesn't exist in the directory. This is the listing when building:

Code:


14:55:06 **** Incremental Build of configuration Debug for project install_all ****
make all 
Creating target directories...
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/include
mkdir -p /home/user/hpgcc3/rom
cp /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/libgcc.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib/libarmgcc.a
cp /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/10.3.1/thumb/libgcc.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib/libgcc.a
Installing files...
cp "HPGCC3 License Agreement.txt" /home/user/hpgcc3
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/crt0'
cp *.o RLld.script /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/crt0'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/decnumber'
cp libdecnumber.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmdecnumber.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/decnumber'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/fsystem'
cp libfsystem.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmfsystem.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/fsystem'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/ggl'
cp libggl.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmggl.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/ggl'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/gui'
cp libgui.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libguivt.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmgui.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmguivt.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/gui'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/headers'
cp *.h /home/user/hpgcc3/include
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/headers'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/hpg'
cp libhpg.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmhpg.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/hpg'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/hplib'
cp libhplib.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmhplib.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/hplib'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/launchers'
cp liblaunchers.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp libarmlaunchers.a /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/launchers'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/make_rom'
cp hpgccrom.bin /home/user/hpgcc3/rom/hpgccrom.bin
echo hpgccrom.bin > /home/user/hpgcc3/rom/update.scp
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/make_rom'
make[1]: se entra en el directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/romlib'
cp romentries.list /home/user/hpgcc3/lib
cp: no se puede efectuar `stat' sobre 'romentries.list': No existe el archivo o el directorio
make[1]: se sale del directorio '/home/user/hpgcc3/libs_workspace/romlib'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:11: install] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:32: all] Error 2
"make all" terminated with exit code 2. Build might be incomplete.

14:55:06 Build Failed. 2 errors, 0 warnings. (took 517ms)

So I'm wondering if this is related to using the right toolchain or there is something else. Any help is appreciated.

This is my system info: Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon (based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so it is roughly an Ubuntu system).
I installed gcc-arm-none-eabi from the packet manager. No gdb-arm-none-eabi packet was available so I guess it is embedded in the gcc packet. About the arm-none-eabi:

Code:


$ arm-none-eabi-gcc --version
arm-none-eabi-gcc (15:10.3-2021.07-4) 10.3.1 20210621 (release)
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