Re: [Csnd-dev] [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] Daisy build info

The toolchain does seem to be in the path, since I can execute
"arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe -v" without errors.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, I now have the Daisy toolchain installed, and the latest Csound
> develop. Following the instruction, I navigate to the build dir and execute
>
> cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../Daisy
>> -DCUSTOM_CMAKE=../Daisy/Custom.cmake
>> -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../Daisy/crosscompile.cmake
>
>
> this produces an error:
>
> -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -
> broken
> CMake Error at C:/Program
> Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.24/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:69 (message):
>   The C compiler
>
>     "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"
>
>   is not able to compile a simple test program.
>
>   It fails with the following output:
>
>     Change Dir:
> C:/Users/daves/OneDrive/Documents/GitHub/csound/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
>
>     Run Build Command(s):C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual
> Studio/2019/Community/MSBuild/Current/Bin/MSBuild.exe cmTC_3462b.vcxproj
> /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64 /p:VisualStudioVersion=16.0 /v:m &&
> Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.11.6+a918ceb31 for .NET Framework
>     Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
>       Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.29.30159 for x64
>       Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>       cl /c /Wall /WX- /diagnostics:column /O2 /D _MBCS /D
> NO_SERIAL_OPCODES /D "CMAKE_INTDIR=\"Debug\"" /Gm- /MD /GS /fp:precise
> /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /Zc:inline /Fo"cmTC_3462b.dir\Debug\\"
> /Fd"C:\Users\daves\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\csound\build\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\Debug\libcmTC_3462b.pdb"
> /external:W4 /Gd /TC /errorReport:queue  -mcpu=cortex-m7 -mfpu=fpv5-d16
> -mfloat-abi=hard -mthumb -fno-builtin -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections
> -fdata-sections -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -Wno-attributes
> -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Wno-missing-attributes
> -Wno-stringop-overflow -std=gnu99
> C:\Users\daves\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\csound\build\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\testCCompiler.c
>     cl : command line error D8021: invalid numeric argument
> '/Wno-attributes'
> [C:\Users\daves\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\csound\build\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\cmTC_3462b.vcxproj]
>
> So apparently it is passing gcc options to the MSVC compiler. What do I
> need to do to get it to use the Daisy toolchain instead?
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Great, thank you!
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM Victor Lazzarini <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> it wasn't committed, I meant!
>>> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>>> Maynooth University
>>> Ireland
>>>
>>> On 8 Sep 2025, at 16:05, Victor Lazzarini <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Indeed, it was committed. It's in a PR now
>>> https://github.com/csound/csound/pull/2267
>>>
>>> But you don't need to build it yourself, just download the package from
>>> the latest release.
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Csound-developers <[email protected]> on behalf of
>>> Dave Seidel <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Monday 8 September 2025 15:47
>>> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Csnd-dev] Daisy build info
>>>
>>> *Warning*
>>>
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>>> The README file in Daisy says "To build libcsound.a from sources see
>>> BUILD.md in this directory." But there is no BUILD.md in that directory.
>>>
>>>