Rebuilding Charm with VFP Support on Rpi

I tried to recompile Charm for my RaspPi to get full VFP support. I followed the instructions on Charm website, but when re-building the tools-folder charm crashed with an internal error. It crashed when linking the assember-tool, as i can see in the logging window.

I asked Peter Nowosad for help, but he did not reply. Has anyone tried to rebuild Charm for VFP?

RISC OS 5.19 on RaspPi
Charm V2.6.3 [32 Bit, VFP]

BW,
Volkert

but when re-building the tools-folder charm crashed with an internal error.

What did the error say?

The Charm website says this:

• Select Target VFP from the !Charm shell menu.
• Drag the lib and tools folders (in that order) on to the shell icon to re-build the tools.
• Execute the following obey file (set type to Obey) to relink the Charm tools for VFP support :
• Drag the charm folder on to the Charm shell to completely re-build Charm.

Does this mean Charm is able to rebuild itself? I don’t know if my C/asm suite has VFP support (it is Castle vintage); however if Charm builds Charm, then I’d be willing to give it a crack, see what happens on my machine.

Update post to follow…

Hi,

Animé download taking forever (hehe, Saturday, so me and everybody else, eh). So I had fifteen minutes spare.

Downloaded Charm, popped it onto the Pi, followed the instructions, everything worked without a hitch (if you ignore the eccentric keyboard, that’s not Charm’s fault).

If you don’t have any luck with getting yours to build (Charm looks like it builds itself, whoo, I like that!), I have zipped up my build, a VFP capable version, and put it at:

http://www.heyrick.co.uk/random/charmmy_kitty.zip

I would have done so a little earlier, but I kinda got sidetracked with the Mandelbrot. Reminds me of Fractale !

So, sorry, can’t help you with your error, but hopefully the VFP build will be a suitable alternative. ;-)

What did the error say?

Internal error: abort on data transfer at &000133E0

So, sorry, can’t help you with your error, but hopefully the VFP build will be a suitable alternative. ;-)

Of course …. many thanks for rebuilding it. :-))))

BW,
Volkert

Mmmmmh. I started now with a fresh risc os image and a fresh charm download.

Now it works …. strange

BW,
Volkert

Volkert,

I tried to get in touch with you by e-mail but obviously these messages did not get through. There was a problem with the image on the web-site after I patched it to remove generation of an arm assembly file $.t when re-building which Andrew Rawnsley noticed. This was inadvertently left in after testing new directives to create .arm and .lst files from inside Charm source code. Anyhow, I re-built the release and checked it installed and built ok, and then replaced the download archive on the web site – so that’s the explanation for why it’s working again now.

…Pete

Thanks Pete for the update. Is there a public charm forum? I know that there is a Facebook Charm Group, but i don’t like the idea to open a FB accout only discus charm issues ;-)

BW,
Volkert

You could try the tumblr link http://riscos-charm.tumblr.com/ask from the http://charm.qu-bit.co.uk/ forum page if you don’t have a facebook account.