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From: tony@raid5.uucp (Tony Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Doing Atari compiles on Unix systems.
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.014008.16161@raid5.uucp>
Date: 13 Sep 90 01:40:08 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.182302.13306@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: tony@raid5.UUCP (Tony Andrews)
Organization: Array Technology Corp., Boulder, Colorado
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In article <1990Sep6.182302.13306@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> schultzd@frith.uucp (David Schultz) writes:
>When this stream first started, I was a bit skeptical.  But, now it
>seems possible.  Has anyone thought of putting a version of Sozobon
>[(or gcc) set-up to make Atari executables from a Sun] on
>atari.archive, or anywhere else.  It would be helpful.

At least one of our users has done this. I got a letter from a guy who was
doing cross-compiles on VMS and downloading to his ST. There were (and
probably still are) some gotchas to look out for when porting the Sozobon
code to a host, depending on the word size and byte order of the host. But
the code is pretty portable overall. If your host is enough faster than
your ST and you have a reasonably fast link, cross-development could be a
win.


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