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- How to compile MiNT 1.08 with PureC
- -----------------------------------
-
- Julian F. Reschke, 25. Juni 1993
- email: reschke@math.uni-muenster.de
-
-
- (1) Special files
-
- First of all, you need a special osbind.h. This is because Pure's own
- version differs in some small details from the GCC header files. You
- can't use Pure's tos.h, either, because in its latest versions it already
- defines some of MiNT's data structures. You can either copy osbind.h into
- the MiNT source directory or copy it into your PureC include folder. If
- you are using the MiNT library, all should work fine without this file.
-
- This is all what's needed. You can either use the command line versions
- of PureC, or you can use the PureC shell (copy mintpure.prj to the source
- directory). I am compiling MiNT with GNU make (latest version at
- atari.archive.umich.edu should work fine) and a self-made 'cc' command,
- that I've specially written for the PureC command line versions (see
- makefile.pcc). This tool is still being tested, and I've not yet decided
- how to distribute it. If you are interested, write to me.
-
- If you're going to use the PureC shell, you'll have to 'manually'
- translate the .spp files to the PASM syntax using asmtrans.ttp. The
- syntax is
-
- asmtrans -purec -o outfile.s outfile.spp
-
- genmagic.ttp is needed to create the file magic.i, which in turn is
- included by the .spp files.
-
-
- (2) Things to do
-
- So far, I've made no attempt to translate asmtrans with PureC. Try it
- yourself (you'll need alloca; might work with the MiNT library version
- for PureC) or compile them with gcc.
-
-
- (3) Caveats
-
- This is a preliminary 'port'. It seems to work fine on my machine, but
- this guarantees nothing:
-
- There's still a conflict in the way PureC saves registers with what MiNT
- file system drivers or device drivers expect. You will have to use PureC
- 1.1 to get the correct behaviour.
-
-