Getting an annoying error while trying to compile (sysfont and long-call error)

[wtfmates]

I'm quite new to this, so there might be a simple fix to it.

make[1]: `rdf2binary' is up to date.
make[1]: `convbdf' is up to date.
make[1]: `codepages' is up to date.
make[1]: `scramble' is up to date.
make[1]: `bmp2rb' is up to date.
MAKE in bitmaps/mono
AR+RANLIB libbitmapsmono.a
MAKE in bitmaps/native
AR+RANLIB libbitmapsnative.a
MAKE in bitmaps/mono
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
MAKE in bitmaps.native
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
Make /home/Ian/rockbox/build/max_language_size.h
Is: cannot access /home/Ian/rockbox/build/apps/lang*: No such file or directory

CONVBDF
CC sysfont.c
cc1: Invalid option `long-calls'
make[1]: *** [/home/ian/rockbox/build/firmware/sysfont.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

That's the error I got the first time. This is from when I tried again.


make[1]: `rdf2binary' is up to date.
make[1]: `convbdf' is up to date.
make[1]: `codepages' is up to date.
make[1]: `scramble' is up to date.
make[1]: `bmp2rb' is up to date.
MAKE in bitmaps/mono
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'
MAKE in bitmaps/native
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'features'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'
CONVBDF
CC sysfont.c
cc1: Invalid option `long-calls'
make[1]: *** [/home/ian/rockbox/build/firmware/sysfont.o] Error 1
make: *** [build] Error 2

[nls]

You are probably using an old version of arm-elf-gcc (long-calls is an arm thing iirc) but since you don't state what environment you are building in it's quite hard to suggest a solution.

[wtfmates]

Cygwin. And I apologize for that mistake. How do I go about obtaining a newer version for cygwin?

[zajacattack]

Did you follow the directions at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CygwinDevelopment to set it up correctly?

[wtfmates]

Did you follow the directions at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CygwinDevelopment to set it up correctly?

Yes, I did. Some of the options weren't listed in the install though, such as this one.

[nls]

Pay special attention to step 3 in the page zajacattack linked, you need to add the rockbox package mirror to get the correct crosscompiler packages.

[zajacattack]

Was there any reason that there is a problem with it? Were the rockbox servers down temporarily any time recently? You are probably right, and it is just something wrong with the execution of step 3, but it could be the servers.