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- IXEMUL LIBRARY INSTALLATION NOTES
-
- (last updated 27-May-97)
-
-
- =====================
- DISTRIBUTION CONTENTS
- =====================
-
- The net ixemul library distribution consists of several archives:
-
- ixemul-bin.lha Utils for gg/bin, like ixtrace and ixprefs
-
- ixemul-sdk.lha Files needed to build applications that use
- ixemul.library.
-
- ixemul-doc.lha Various documentation, such as this file
-
- ixemul-src.tgz Complete source code for ixemul library as
- a gzip compressed tar archive.
-
- ixemul-tz.lha Pieces for doing TZ (timezone) management
-
- ixemul-CCCF.lha Specific flavors of the library, where 'CCC'
- is one of 000, 020, or 040, for 68000, 68020,
- and 68040 respectively, and 'F' is either
- 'f', 's', or 't' for FPU support or soft floating
- point or a "trace" version (also soft float)
- respectively.
-
- The ixemul-doc.lha archive contains various readme and copyright files that
- do not need to be installed anywhere. The ixemul-src.tgz archive contains
- the source tree that can be installed anywhere. The rest of the archives
- should simply be extracted relative to the gg: directory to put all the
- files in their standard location.
-
- ========================
- INSTALLING RUNTIME FILES
- ========================
-
- For the moment, you must manually install the files. Eventually there will
- be an installer script available that you can use with the standard AmigaOS
- installer program to make installation more WorkBench friendly.
-
- First backup any files in gg: that will get overwritten during the install,
- if you wish to preserve them. These files typically are:
-
- gg:bin/ixprefs
- gg:bin/ixtrace
- gg:bin/ixstack
- gg:lib/bcrt0.o
- gg:lib/crt0.o
- gg:lib/rcrt0.o
- gg:lib/libc.a
- gg:lib/libb/libc.a
- gg:include (lots of files, but probably not all)
- gg:man (lots of files, but probably not all)
- gg:etc (lots of files, but probably not all)
- gg:Sys/libs/ixemul* (all the old versions of the library)
-
- Change directory to gg: and extract the contents of ixemul-bin.lha,
- ixemul-sdk.lha (if you expect to be building any ixemul.library using
- applications), ixemul-tz.lha (optional) and any ixemul-XXXX.lha archives
- that you want, overwriting any existing copies of the files in your Geek
- Gadgets tree. For example, to install the utils, sdk, and both the 68000
- 68040+68881 versions of the library, do the following:
-
- lha -mraxe x ixemul-bin.lha gg:
- lha -mraxe x ixemul-sdk.lha gg:
- lha -mraxe x ixemul-000.lha gg:
- lha -mraxe x ixemul-040f.lha gg:
-
- Now you need to decide which version of the library to use, based on what
- sort of machine you have (68000, 68020 or 68030, 68040) and whether or not it
- has an FPU (68020+68881, 68030 with FPU, or 68040 with FPU). Do something
- like the following:
-
- cd gg:Sys/libs
- copy ixemul040fpu.library ixemul.library clone
-
- Then either reboot or run a program to flush the existing ixemul.library (if
- any) from memory. You should also review the NEWS file from the docs
- archive for changes made since the version from which you have upgraded.
- If you installed the ixemul-tz.lha archive you should read ixtimezone.doc
- from the docs archive and set your TZ environment variable appropriately.
-
- =======================
- INSTALLING SOURCE FILES
- =======================
-
- To extract the source code, simply cd to a directory where you would like
- the source code directory to be created, and extract the source archive
- there:
-
- cd gg-src:
- gzip -d ixemul-src.tgz
- tar -xvf ixemul-src.tar
- rm ixemul-src.tar
-
- Note that this will create the directory ixemul and populate it with all the
- source files.
-
- To rebuild the library, all that is needed is to run the configure script
- and then run make. It is recommended that you use separate source and build
- directories so you can leave the source tree untouched:
-
- cd gg-build:
- makedir ixemul
- cd ixemul
- sh /gg-src/ixemul/configure --prefix=/gg
-
- This will create a Makefile and several subdirectories with other Makefiles.
- Note the section in the Makefile that looks like:
-
- ### CPU-FPU types.
- ###
- ### The default thing to do is to make all reasonable combinations of the
- ### library.
- ###
- ### Note that libsrc, which builds the runtime startup files and all
- ### versions of libc.a, and utils completely ignore the base/cpu/fpu variables,
- ### so these are handled in the all: target.
- ###
- ### You can remove specific CPU/FPU combinations that you are not interested in.
-
- CPU-FPU-TYPES = 68000.soft-float \
- 68020.soft-float 68020.68881 \
- 68040.soft-float 68040.68881
-
- By default, all of the versions of ixemul.library are built by make. This
- can take a relatively long time. If you only want to build one particular
- version of the library and runtime files to test, just remove the lines
- you don't want. I.E. to build a 68040+68881 version, the above lines
- should be changed to:
-
- CPU-FPU-TYPES = 68040.68881
-
- Then just run "make" in the build directory:
-
- cd gg-build:ixemul
- make
-
- Note that you must have a version of GNU make that is newer than the ones
- distributed on the FreshFish CDs and on aminet. Those makes had a patch for
- AmigaOS that nobody used but disabled an important feature that the current
- ixemul Makefiles use. If you have problem compiling the ixemul library get
- the latest Geek Gadgets make from ftp.ninemoons.com:pub/geekgadgets or a
- mirror.
-
- You need at least version 2.6.0 of gas, the GNU assembler. Earlier
- versions didn't fully support the Motorola assembly syntax, but this one
- does. Again, you can get this from Geek Gadgets.
-
- You also need a gcc that accepts the -mrestore-a4 and the -resident32
- option (first released in November/December 1996), otherwise ixemul will
- not compile.
-
- Finally, if you have an older version of ixemul.library installed while you
- are compiling this new version, then you may run into trouble building the
- timezone files using the 'zic' utility. This utility requires the latest
- ixemul.library (which you have just compiled), but since you haven't
- installed it yet, zic complains that the ixemul.library is too old. The
- solution is to install the new ixemul.library first, and then continue
- compiling. You may have to use 'avail flush' or reboot after installing the
- new library to insure that the old library is really flushed from memory.
-
- =======
- IXPREFS
- =======
-
- Note that effective with ixemul.library 42.0, ixconfig can no longer be
- used. Use ixprefs instead.
-
- ==============
- REPORTING BUGS
- ==============
-
- Please report problems or bugs to Hans Verkuil (hans@wyst.hobby.nl), who is
- the current ixemul library coordinator. Even better than a bug report is a
- bug fix, which typically would be a context diff file for one or more ixemul
- source files.
-