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- From: hhc@athena.mit.edu (Hong-Hsiang Chen)
- Subject: Re: GCC cross compiler MSDOS --> 68k question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.155005.13642@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: GCC MSDOS 68000 cross compiler help
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:50:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.223251.1337@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
- >4bclass@bode.uwaterloo.ca (Elec/CompEng '92 Alumni) writes:
- >>Hello everyone,
- >
- >>I am certain that someone out there has built a full GCC-based cross
- >>compiling environment hosted on an MSDOS machine and with a 68k target.
- [some stuff..]
- >OK, all kidding aside, I am not too optimistic about this. I embarked
- >on an attempt to do this some time ago with gcc 1.39 and hit the following
- >barriers:
- [stuff about inadequacies of existing C compilers for MSDOS]
-
- The obvious solution is to use gcc, of course!
- DJ Delorie has had a port of gcc using a DOS extender for MSDOS for quite
- some time now. Since it seems that no-one has done this successfully yet,
- that would be the place to start.
- You'd probably want to set up Delorie's gcc on MSDOS then modify his sources
- to spit 68k code...
-
- You'd need more than 640k, though...
- BTW, the 3b1 has a VM of only 2 megs for user space...blecch! ran up hard
- against it using gcc 2.3.1, alas...
-
- >If you are determined, it could probably be done with one of the new
- >compilers (like Zortech C for the 386) that generate native mode code.
- >I agree it would be a nice thing. Another possibility is that this post
- >will bring someone out of the bushes to prove me wrong.
- heh heh...
- You'd probably be better off using gcc to bootstrap itself...but I don't
- know how hacked Delorie's port is so I couln't tell ya...
- >>
- >>Thank you for your time,
- >> Alex Leyn
- >--
- > Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu
- >...."There's no sense in being precise when you don't even
- >.... know what you're talking about."
- > - John von Neumann
- Well, have fun!
-
-
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