[Vm-dev] Compiling squeak.cog.spur on Pi

[Phil (list)]

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 21:49 -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>  
> I have a new Raspberry Pi and want to compile the Cog Spur VM.
> 
> I fetched the latest from SVN (never mind GitHub for now, I'll do
> that soon):
> 
>   $ svn co http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog
> 
> Then I do a build:
> 
>   pi at raspberrypi:~/squeak/SVN-
> Cog/Cog/build.linux32ARM/squeak.cog.spur/build $ ./mvm
>   clean? 
>   /home/pi/squeak/SVN-Cog/Cog/spursrc
>   /home/pi/squeak/SVN-Cog/Cog/src/plugins
>   checking sanity of generated src directory... okay
>   checking build system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
>   checking host system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
>   
>   Configuring Squeak  (.-) for armv7l-linux-gnu
>   
>   checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>   checking for gcc... gcc -march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard
>   checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> error: C compiler cannot create executables
>   See `config.log' for more details.
>   make: *** No rule to make target 'install-squeak'.  Stop.
> 
> Does anyone recognize this?

Yes, I ran into it as well... the build is hard-coded to build for the
ARMv6 of the original Pi.  Remove the line with the compiler flags "-
march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard" in mvm.  That fixed the issue
for me for ARMv7 builds.