PropGCC build issues

David Betz · 2019-07-04 11:14

I'm moving the discussion of building PropGCC to a new thread to avoid polluting Ross's Catalina thread.

DavidZemon: Do you use the "fix-xcode-warnings.sh" script when building the Linux or Windows version of the propeller-gcc repository? It was originally only needed for the Mac builds. If it's use for other builds maybe it should be renamed.

David Betz · 2019-07-04 13:40

I just pushed a similar fix to the propeller-gcc repository.

DavidZemon · 2019-07-04 13:40

Nope, but I (relatively) recently added Mac builds to the ci server.

David Betz · 2019-07-04 13:51

DavidZemon wrote: »

Nope, but I (relatively) recently added Mac builds to the ci server.

Interesting. How do you do a Mac build on your server?

DavidZemon · 2019-07-04 16:10

Dgately was kind enough to set up a spare Mac he had in his house as a second slave for the build server. No magic here

David Betz · 2019-07-04 17:45

DavidZemon wrote: »

Dgately was kind enough to set up a spare Mac he had in his house as a second slave for the build server. No magic here

Ah, I thought maybe you had found a way to install Mac OS X on your server.

David Betz · 2019-07-04 18:52

David, are the Linux and Windows builds of propeller-gcc working?

DavidZemon · 2019-07-04 21:50

I think something must have been wrong with the server. I applied updates and rebooted just now and it's started the build process. Hopefully it still works after a year without any builds

David Betz · 2019-07-04 22:12

Yeah, there hasn't been much activity on PropGCC lately. We were waiting for Parallax to decide to start the P2 effort but now it seems that will not happen.

RalfSt · 2019-07-05 06:55

I tried to get the propgcc to work:

source fix-xcode-warnings.sh
export PREFIX=/opt/pxc
make

The build-process ended with the known Issue 78.
Is there any known effort to update to a more modern GCC version or at least fix the building-issues? The last changes are 4 years old, while GCC makes progress quiet fast.
Or is this project dead and just kept online for legacy reasons?

David Betz · 2019-07-05 10:26

If you want to see progress on this I recommend you contact Parallax directly.

DavidZemon · 2019-07-05 12:21

RalfSt wrote: »
I tried to get the propgcc to work:
source fix-xcode-warnings.sh
export PREFIX=/opt/pxc
make
The build-process ended with the known Issue 78.
Is there any known effort to update to a more modern GCC version or at least fix the building-issues? The last changes are 4 years old, while GCC makes progress quiet fast.
Or is this project dead and just kept online for legacy reasons?

See https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/168418/building-propgcc-with-docker

DavidZemon · 2019-07-05 12:25

RalfSt wrote: »
I tried to get the propgcc to work:
source fix-xcode-warnings.sh
export PREFIX=/opt/pxc
make
The build-process ended with the known Issue 78.
Is there any known effort to update to a more modern GCC version or at least fix the building-issues? The last changes are 4 years old, while GCC makes progress quiet fast.
Or is this project dead and just kept online for legacy reasons?

Don't know suse very well, but perhaps this will help you: https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/168418/building-propgcc-with-docker

And if not, then maybe you'd be content running all tools from the command line? https://hub.docker.com/r/davidzemon/propworld

dgately · 2019-07-05 20:44

David Betz wrote: »

I'm moving the discussion of building PropGCC to a new thread to avoid polluting Ross's Catalina thread

Not to de-rail this thread, but I get the following error when building PropGCC on macOS Mojave 10.14.5. Since my old iMac is the current TeamCity Mac-executables builder, I wanted to check to make sure that we can build propgcc. The following is from my MacBook Pro, which runs the latest macOS builds (the iMac runs a previous macOS version as it is an old CPU):

$ g++ -std=gnu++11 -g -O2   -I. -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/common -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/opt/parallax/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../include/opcode -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../opcodes/.. -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../readline/.. -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../zlib -I../bfd -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../bfd -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../include -I../libdecnumber -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/../libdecnumber  -I/Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/gnulib/import -Ibuild-gnulib/import   -DTUI=1  -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unused -Wunused-value -Wunused-function -Wno-switch -Wno-char-subscripts -Wempty-body -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wunused-but-set-variable -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-narrowing -Wformat-nonliteral -Werror -c -o gdb.o -MT gdb.o -MMD -MP -MF .deps/gdb.Tpo /Users/my_user_name/source/propgcc/binutils/gdb/gdb.c
clang: error: treating 'c' input as 'c++' when in C++ mode, this behavior is deprecated [-Werror,-Wdeprecated]

In my memory building binutils has always been problematic on macOS. There's always some workaround to get a complete PropGCC build.

Any ideas before I jump into the binutils directory and start debugging?

dgately

David Betz · 2019-07-05 20:50

That's odd. My Mac mini is running Mojave 10.14.5 and it builds propgcc and propeller-gcc without any problems.

dgately · 2019-07-06 02:42

David Betz wrote: »

That's odd. My Mac mini is running Mojave 10.14.5 and it builds propgcc and propeller-gcc without any problems.

Interesting... My iMac that runs the TeamCity builds for macOS succeeds in building propgcc. So, I'm not too worried that my MacBook Pro does not. Might be due to the XCode Beta that I'm running on it or something that I've installed with Homebrew.

Looks like that gcc version that builds is 6.0.0. That is expected, correct?

$ propeller-elf-gcc --version
propeller-elf-gcc (propellergcc-alpha_v1_9_0_) 6.0.0 20150430 (experimental)
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

dgately

David Betz · 2019-07-06 10:39

Yes, I believe that the default for propeller-gcc is to build GCC 6. It actually builds out of Eric's GCC repository.

Edit: I just noticed that the propeller-gcc repository currently builds gcc4. I've changed my local copy to gcc6 and am attempting a build. If that works, I'll check that version into GitHub.

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