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- From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Programming Tools (was: Amiga programmers UNITE)
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 13:52:25 GMT
- References: <piet.025y@okapi.sub.org> <1992Aug19.021639.13300@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <BtG4C9.F7z@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1992Aug28.204031.21575@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.204031.21575@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
- |> In article <BtG4C9.F7z@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng) writes:
- |> >GRROOOOSSSSSSSS!!! It had better come with a decent make and a cc
- |> >front end that feels like its Unix equivalent (hopefully with a
- |> >set of switches like -c -o -O -g etc. that act as expected).
- |>
- |> Don't know about a better make (although LMK has always met my needs), but
- |> better command-line switches are supposed to be there. Ones that are actual
- |> options rather than toggles are promised. But why UNIX switches? I've always
- |> preferred my SAS compiler and the way it works to my UNIX compiler (I do most
- |> UNIX development at home on SAS, as it catches many more problems than the
- |> cc that is on our Suns).
-
- We don't supply a UNIX-like front end. However, such a front-end does
- exist in the public domain for the version 5 command-line switches;
- this could easily be modified to invoke "sc5" instead of "lc", and
- you'd have your UNIX compatibility. It also wouldn't be too hard to
- do one that invokes SC directly.
-
- The new command-line switches are AmigaDOS 2.0-style. Last November,
- we took a poll of readers of our support conference on BIX, asking
- them whether they would like a revised LC-like front-end, a Unix CC-like
- front-end, or a new front-end with AmigaDOS 2.0-style options. They
- overwhelmingly chose the AmigaDOS options (although my personal
- preference at the time was UNIX-style options). Since then, I have
- grown accustomed to the new front-end and I like it a lot.
-
- Virtually all options have a positive and a negative form. No options
- are toggles (!!!!). This means you can set an option in the options
- file and override it on the command line. The options-setting program
- (SCOPTS) accepts options on the command line as well. If invoked this
- way, it does not open its point-and-click window, but instead just
- modifies the SCOPTIONS file to reflect the newly-specified option.
- In practice, I find that I use SCOPTS from the CLI command line to
- set up my options, then virtually always I can compile small projects
- with a simple
-
- sc foo.c
-
- or
-
- sc #?.c
-
-
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