devkitPro

Hm. That's interesting. What do normal people do nowadays with computers? Use Office (or equivalent) for their work, navigate via IE (or equivalent) to their enterprise portal to do some more work, play some flash games, use facebook/youtube/twitter/mail/news sites/whatever using (again) IE...

Why would they need a better computer than a Windows XP with an 800MHz VIA C3 Ezra processor and 256 megs of ram for all that?

Man, I'm getting old...

They do all those things on their C3 while waiting 20 minutes for libnds to compile.

I have a suspicion that the "internal compiler error: Illegal instruction" message may be due to devkitARM being compiled for i686 and that VIA C3 Ezra being K6 II based which I believe was i586.

http://www.viaarena.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16871 would seem to confirm. In fact http://osdir.com/ml/audio.ardour.devel/ ... 00009.html gives the actual source of the problem.

Of course the question is now if I can be bothered to rebuild everything and get it tested or if WingedOne might prefer a processor upgrade.

I'm using a 600mhz intel celeron, Hitachi portable with 128 MB of RAM and devkitARM compiles fine for me. So the AMD architecture is probably to blame.

See? THAT's exactly why compilers need to be written in. NET managed code... or maybe Java...
(sorry about that)

and just when you think youve got it all figured out, youll discover that .net runtime doesn't work on that cpu either..

Just so you know, I got another computer that can compile properly now.

Thanks.