Assembler Errors

[Loxy618]

Trying to compile for a Arm Microcontroller. We are using the following in the makefile

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env['AS'] = 'arm-none-eabi-as'  #use as cross compiler
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if we use 'gcc' instead of 'as' everything works as expected.

The error we get when using 'as' is "receipt for target 'all' failed"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Loxy618]

Specifically I'm getting

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arm-none-eabi-as: unrecognized option `-x'

the flags I have are (these I was using for gcc)

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# Assembler flags
env.Append(ASFLAGS = [
	'-mthumb',
	'-x',
	'assembler-with-cpp',
	'-c',
	'-mcpu=%s' % (ARCH),
	'-MD',
	'-MP',
	'-D__%s__' % (PART),
	'-Wa,-g',
])

I tried to remove some of the unneeded ones when I switched from gcc to as with no luck

[dhylands]

What I would do is to run gcc with the --verbose option. This will show you what arguments it's calling as with. as doesn't take the same arguments as gcc.

[WRR]

'as' is a dedicated assembler, while 'gcc' is more multi-purpose. The '-x' option tells GCC which language it is compiling, and it looks like your current flags tell it that the language is 'assembler-with-cpp' to have GCC act as an assembler. I think that 'as' probably doesn't recognize that option because it only works with one language - assembly

You can run 'arm-none-eabi-as --help' and 'man arm-none-eabi-as' to see more information about the individual options. It looks like some of the ones you listed are also synonyms of AS flags, like I think that passing '-Wa,-g' to GCC is the same as passing '-g' to AS.

But GCC should work fine for assembly code if you don't have a specific reason not to use it.