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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Programming environments
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.234040.8587@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 13 Feb 91 04:40:40 GMT
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> How about a constructive discussion on programming environments and tools
> that people use on their ST's?  Many would benefit I'm sure (including me
> :-).
> 
> My big dilemma is trying to find a 'good' make and cc wrapper for
> compiler 'x' (where 'x' might be MWC, Turbo-C, Alcyon (shudder), etc).
> Any ideas?  Ideally, I'd like them to work in harmony under Gulam.
> I've looked at atari.archive and am hoping for more info.  Pointers to
> Commercial applications would be useful as well.
> 
If you've got the memory (2 megabytes or more) the various gnu utilities
that have been ported to the ST provide a very nice, Unix-like
environment. I use gcc, gnu make, and gulam most of the time, with
bash for running Unix shell scripts or for when I'm running MGR; the
latter two require MiNT, although there is a TOS version of bash as
well. Add a few other utilities (like diff, patch, wc, and some form
of emacs) and you have just about everything a programmer could want.
All that's missing is RCS, and Allan Pratt mentioned that he's working
on porting this.
-- 
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            eric.smith@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   7103_2622@uwovax.bitnet