My attempt to change the linker fails

My attempt to change the linker fails

[leonp]

Hello,
         I use the SN for cross development (this time under Win2K without 
CygWin) and have the following question:
         When I open the build target settings editing dialog (which has 
the Source, Library, Build, Link tabs), each of its tabs has 3 items to the 
right. The last is called "Tool chain" and has 3 GNUpro options. I am able 
to substitute compiler name to the compiler I need (in my case this is 
gcc166) by editing build rule "executable" item. This leads to the CC 
variable in snMakefile to be set to my value. But my attemp to do the same 
in "Link Rools -> Linker" fails. SN constantly returns 
..-gnu-ar  definition in this text box, while in snMakefile remains 
definition of LINKER=...gnu-ar.

Thanks ahead.


Leon Pollak
leonp@plris.com

Re: My attempt to change the linker fails

[Ian Roxborough]

I beleave that this is bug, if I remember correctly this
is fixed in the up comming 5.0 release (sooooooooooon ok).

If you can't wait (I can't give you a date for the 5.0
release) until then, you could edit the file
<your-install-dir>/share/gui/toolchain.tcl to use
gcc166 instead of gcc, this might be a better since
you won't have to change the compiler and linker
every time you create a build target.

Ian.


leonp@plris.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>          I use the SN for cross development (this time under Win2K without
> CygWin) and have the following question:
>          When I open the build target settings editing dialog (which has
> the Source, Library, Build, Link tabs), each of its tabs has 3 items to the
> right. The last is called "Tool chain" and has 3 GNUpro options. I am able
> to substitute compiler name to the compiler I need (in my case this is
> gcc166) by editing build rule "executable" item. This leads to the CC
> variable in snMakefile to be set to my value. But my attemp to do the same
> in "Link Rools -> Linker" fails. SN constantly returns
> ..-gnu-ar  definition in this text box, while in snMakefile remains
> definition of LINKER=...gnu-ar.
> 
> Thanks ahead.
> 
> Leon Pollak
> leonp@plris.com