Trying to add a new native platform

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Hi,

I’m trying to and an Keil Arm toolchain. At the beginning I tried just change executable and a toolchain path:
arm(Gcc) {
path "somePath"
eachPlatform {
cCompiler.executable = 'armcc’
cppCompiler.executable = 'armcc’
staticLibArchiver.executable = 'armar’
linker.executable = 'armlink’
assembler.executable = ‘armasm’
}
}

Unfortunately it doesn’t work, since armcc.exe doesn’t support version read in the same way as gcc, so I have following error:

Tool chain 'arm' (GNU GCC): Could not determine GCC version: failed to execute armcc.exe -m32 -dM -E -.

So I decided to go with a solution proposed by daz in the following topic: How to pass arguments to gcc instead of ld during the linking step?

apply plugin: 'c'

model {
toolChains {
crossCompiler(Gcc) {
addPlatformConfiguration(new ArmArchitecture())
}
}
targetPlatforms {
arm {
architecture “arm”
}
}
components {
main(NativeExecutableSpec) {
targetPlatform “arm”
}
}
}
import org.gradle.nativeplatform.toolchain.internal.gcc.TargetPlatformConfiguration;
class ArmArchitecture implements TargetPlatformConfiguration {
boolean supportsPlatform(Platform element) {
return targetPlatform.getArchitecture().name == “arm”
}
}

Unfortunately it also fails due to following issue:

Can’t have an abstract method in a non-abstract class. The class ‘ArmArchitecture’ must be declared abstrct or the method ‘boolean supportsPlatform(org.gradle.nativeplatform.platform.internal.NativePlatformInternal)’ must be implemented.
@ line 44, column 1.
class ArmArchitecture implements TargetPlatformConfiguration {
^

So I changed code slightly to have ‘supportsPlatform’ and ‘apply’ implementation:

import org.gradle.nativeplatform.platform.internal.NativePlatformInternal; import org.gradle.nativeplatform.toolchain.internal.gcc.TargetPlatformConfiguration; import org.gradle.nativeplatform.toolchain.internal.gcc.DefaultGccPlatformToolChain; class ArmArchitecture implements TargetPlatformConfiguration { public boolean supportsPlatform(NativePlatformInternal targetPlatform) { return targetPlatform.getArchitecture().name == "arm" } public void apply(DefaultGccPlatformToolChain gccToolChain) { } } ... but then gradle fails: > Exception thrown while executing model rule: NativeComponentRules#createBinaries > Invalid NativePlatform: arm

Can somebody help me? What am I do wrongly?

2

Did you find any solution to this problem? I don’t think it’s exactly what I want to do, but if possible might be an alternative.

3

Unfortunately not. Neither I found something nor one helped me, so I would grateful if you could help me.

4

I think I have managed to do what I needed in 2.11 - though it was a massive effort to work out where everything goes. It turns out in my case code similar to your original worked OK.

I did think you could try something like your original with the hooks mentioned in https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/native_software.html that allow you edit command line arguments. Perhaps that would let you force the appropriate command line to pass the checks.

5

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your answer. I’ve tried the same with Gradle 2.11 and I saw no changes there. I mean I still cannot do my toolchain.
Would it be possible that you share your implementation?