Problems in building to ARMI platform (Symbian 6.0) — Symbian C++

Koivusalo 23 Mar 2004, 09:04

I'm using Borland BuilderX (with VC++6) and I've come across with problems trying to build a project into an app; while working out on WINS platform, the complier logs this error while building on ARMI:

abld -v target ARMI UREL
gcc -s -fomit-frame-pointer -march=armv4t -mthumb-interwork -pipe -c -nostdinc -Wall -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -O -DNDEBUG -D_UNICODE -D__SYMBIAN32__ -D__GCC32__ -D__EPOC32__ -D__MARM__ -D__MARM_ARMI__ -D__DLL__ -I "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\" -I "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\INC" -I- -I "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\INCLUDE" -o "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.o" "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\Mdminterfaceeng.cpp"
perl -S makedef.pl -Deffile "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.inf" -Frzfile "\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\BMARM\MDMINTERFACEENGU.DEF" "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\MDMINTERFACEENG.def"
ld -s -e _E32Dll -u _E32Dll "MDMINTERFACEENG.exp" --dll --base-file "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.bas" -o "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.DLL" "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\RELEASE\ARMI\UREL\EDLL.LIB" --whole-archive "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.in" --no-whole-archive "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\RELEASE\ARMI\UREL\EUSER.LIB"
ld -s -e _E32Dll -u _E32Dll --dll "MDMINTERFACEENG.exp" -Map "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\RELEASE\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.DLL.map" -o "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.DLL" "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\RELEASE\ARMI\UREL\EDLL.LIB" --whole-archive "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\MDMINTERFACEENG\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACEENG.in" --no-whole-archive "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\RELEASE\ARMI\UREL\EUSER.LIB"
petran "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\ENGINE\
gcc -s -fomit-frame-pointer -march=armv4t -mthumb-interwork -pipe -c -nostdinc -Wall -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -O -DNDEBUG -D_UNICODE -D__SYMBIAN32__ -D__GCC32__ -D__EPOC32__ -D__MARM__ -D__MARM_ARMI__ -D__DLL__ -I "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\GUI\" -I "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\INC" -I- -I "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\INCLUDE" -o "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\GUI\MDMINTERFACE\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACE.o" "..\..\..\HAKEMISTO\MDMINTERFACE\GUI\Mdminterface.cpp"
perl -S makedef.pl -Deffile "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\GUI\MDMINTERFACE\ARMI\UREL\MDMINTERFACE.inf" -1 NewApplication__Fv "..\..\..\Symbian\6.0\NokiaCPP\EPOC32\BUILD\INSSITYO\MDMINTERFACE\GUI\MDMINTERFACE\ARMI\MDMINTERFACE.def"
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'petran' : return code '0xfffffffe'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'D:\MSN\SDK\v1.1\bin\nmake.exe' : return code '0x2'

Also, the App node in the Package tree gives an error about illegal local patch; however, the buttons to change it are greyed out! How can this be corrected?

fuse 02 Apr 2004, 18:07

Strange indeed. You should try to compile directly from the command line and see if it's working then.

redshift 15 Apr 2004, 00:05

I remember similar strange things... then I reinstalled the whole sdk... 😊 Solved.

Stewe

Derek 07 Sep 2004, 18:19

SDK uses petran to transfer COFF executable to epoc specific executable. And if target executable is a .dll(.app is also a .dll), you can't use global "mutable" variable or static "mutable" member variable, or you will get error message from petran.

For example, you can't declare something like:
int a = 5; //will change its value in runtime, you can't do that in symbian dll

class X
{
static int y;
};

//will change its value in runtime, you can't do that in symbian dll
int X::y = 10;

Instead, you must prepend "const" in front of variable declaration:
const int a = 5;

class X
{
const static int y;
};

const int X::y = 10

Derek 07 Sep 2004, 18:21

Symbian SDK uses petran to transfer COFF executable to epoc specific executable. And if target executable is a .dll(.app is also a .dll), you can't use global "mutable" variable and static "mutable" member variable, or you will get error message from petran.