Linux HLA doesn't recognise hlalib.a ?

[TmX]

It seems that the HLA compiler is a bit "Windows oriented"
I'm using Ubuntu Gusy, BTW.

ERROR! Could not locate the HLALIB.LIB file.
Have you set the HLALIB environment variable properly?

Isn't that a Windows thing ?  :eek  :green
So I added this line to my .bashrc :

set HLALIB=/usr/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a

Whoa that didn't work.
So I use this :

hla -lib:/usr/hlalib/hlalib.a somecode.hla

And that works.
Don't mean to complain, but sometimes typing too much can be quite annoying  :green

[Evenbit]

Looks like the best approach on Linux is to download the source for HLA, make neccessary corrections, then build this modified HLA.

[DarkWolf]

You need to add something like this to your .bashrc file :

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# Added for HLA support
export hlalib=/home/user/HLA/hlalib/hlalib.a
export hlainc=/home/user/HLA/include


Using of course whatever is your path to hla.
And then be sure to run

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source .bashrc
HLA docs say to keep the variable and export command on seperate lines but I found that not to work and having them on both lines does, try either one.

[TmX]

Yeah I've tried to create environment variable, but that doesn't work either.
BTW, take a look at the source code.
Change strcpy( hlalibPath, "/usr/hla/hlalib/hlalib.lib" ); to strcpy( hlalibPath, "/usr/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a" );

Works for me  :cheekygreen:

[DarkWolf]

Yeah I saw your Tim, and it didn't look like the right way to export the variable (not on any linux distro I have seen at least), that why I thought maybe you had it wrong.

I wonder if the path in the source code is there for default setup and for some reason on your system it is not being overridden with the enviroment variable.

[Randall Hyde]

It seems that the HLA compiler is a bit "Windows oriented"
I'm using Ubuntu Gusy, BTW.

This problem has been fixed in HLA v1.100, btw.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

[sirEgghead]

I know this is an old threat to be posting on, however I am having the same trouble and I am running HLA 1.104 on a fedora 13 system.  I have triple checked that my environment variables are set properly.  I have even tried pointing HLA to the library by hand with the -lib flag without success.  Below is a post of what I see.

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[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$ hla -v hw
ERROR! Could not locate the hlalib.a file.
Have you set the 'hlalib' environment variable properly?
[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$ hla -lib=/home/myuser/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a -v hw
ERROR! Could not locate the hlalib.a file.
Have you set the 'hlalib' environment variable properly?
[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$ echo $hlalib
/home/myuser/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a
[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$ echo $HLALIB
/home/myuser/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a
[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$ ls /home/myuser/hla/hlalib
hlalib.a  hlalib_safe.a
[myuser@mycomputer AoA_projects]$

So yeah...As you can see, it's not cooperating with me even though I am certain that the path IS set and that it is set CORRECTLY.   :(  I just don't know.  I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.


Thanks!

Thomas

[sirEgghead]

Well, it worked after I moved HLA to /usr/hla.  I didn't want to, but oh well.  I saw the path in hla.c.  I may recompile it one day to point it to where I want it.  Why isn't the environment variable working properly though?

[Sevag.K]

probably a version issue.  in the old days, the hlalib environment had to point to hlalib.a file, but with the newer versions (perhaps hla 2.xx + ) it has to point to the hlalib folder.

in your case, this looks like it's

/home/myuser/hla/hlalib

the reason it's working with hla in the hla folder is because hla looks for hlalib.a in <process path>/hlalib if it can't find it on the hlalib path.

[Smartnow]

I have in

/etc/bash/bashrc

# Environment Variables that HLA, High Level Assembly needs during Compilation                                                             
export hlainc=/usr/hla/include                                 
export hlalib=/usr/hla/hlalib

Works very good for all users is this.  :bg