Path: utzoo!utgpu!watadm1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: ST Laser C & elvis - chokes on #ifdef !somewhat - Help ?!
Message-ID: <6894.26e839f0@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 8 Sep 90 04:23:12 GMT
References: <1161@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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In article <1161@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>, p576spz@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (S.Petra Zeidler) writes:
> subject says it all : did someone manage to compile elvis with Laser C on
> an Atari ST ?

Laser C's preprocessor is exceptionally weak. You'll have to either
(1) hand edit all the #if's and #ifdef's to match what you know to be true
(2) get a better preprocessor and run Elvis through that before feeding it
    to Laser
(3) get a new C compiler

I would recommend option (3) myself, since there are good public domain
and shareware compilers available for the ST. If you've got the memory
(2 Mb and a hard disk) get GNU C. If not, try Sozobon.
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