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From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Motorola C cross-compiler wanted
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.214016.27682@MDI.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 21:40:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.184938.18994@convex.com> russ@convex.com (Russell Donnan) writes:
>I am looking for a 68008 C Cross compiler for the Macintosh.  I have a
>cross assembler that I like alot, but the same company doesn't make a
>compiler, nor do they know of anyone who does.  This product would
>preferably create Motorola HEX, but straight HEX would be fine.  Also
>as an alternative, I would accept a Pascal compiler.  (Looking at
>thousands of lines of assembly, and many more yet to write has made me
>desperate.)

You can actually develop 68XXX family code quite nicely with MPW on the Mac.
Quite a few folks do this with MPC C and the MPW linker. You then use a
neat little utility that one of the folks at Apple developed (but it's not
an Apple-supported utility) that takes the output resources and puts them
into a Motorola hex format file for download to the target. I believe
the code file came across the binaries group a while back, so it should
be in the archives... Note that this is an MPW tool, so you need MPW to
run it. If I remember correctly, it takes a file with the prescribed
resource types and converts those resources. This means you can develop
in any language. A cheap development system might then be Aztec C (with MPW).

Good luck!

- Jack B.
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