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From: sstreep@next.com (Sam Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Deskaccs with GCC
Message-ID: <319@next.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 20:05:06 GMT
References: <2666@charon.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: sstreep@NeXT.com
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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In article <2666@charon.cwi.nl> waal@cwi.nl (Peter de Waal) writes:
>Now that I have my Gcc cross compiler up and running on my Sparc station, I
>would like to compile the sources for a deskaccessory that I wrote. Standard
>compiling:
>
>gcc -o foo.acc foo.c -lgem
>
>does not seem to work, since my ST then just reboots when it tries
>to load the accessory. I assume that for accessories I need a different
>startup module (?). Can anybody tell how to do this (I don't see accessories
>mentioned at all in the GCC docs).

I don't know a lot about atari GNU C, but if there is no accessory startup
code I can help.  I have written startup code for Laser, Mark Williams,
Megamax, and Sozobon compilers that will start regular programs or desk
accessories.  The code for all the compilers except Sozobon is owned by
Antic and was published in October 89 STart magazine.  The sozobon startup
is public domain
and was posted to the Atari sources group; it is conceptually identical to
my own Laser C startup code.

I can mail it to anyone that is interested in porting it to the GNU
compiler.  It is my hope that someday most accessories will be runable
as programs.  (yes, I know about MultiDesk, a fine program that should
not be necessary)

-sam (sam_s@NeXT.com)