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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Free C Compiler?  Almost!
Message-ID: <1039@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 88 07:03:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.1039
Posted: Wed Mar 16 02:03:01 1988
References: <2435@k.cc.purdue.edu> <7626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Newsaholics Anonymous
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Keywords: public domain c compiler from FF110 almost works well now need help
Summary: Don't forget GNU C

In article <7626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bryce@eris (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>In article <> ahg@k.cc.purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) writes:
>>
>>What I need from the Amiga community:
>>
>>	Libraries: I've been told I can't give away amiga.lib, so I'm looking
>>	for a replacement(s?).
>
>Most of amiga.lib is dumb stub routines that can be generated programatically.
>You will need to write a program to convert the "fd.files" into assembly
>language stubs, then assemble that.

 Someone has already written a program to do this, called bind. I saw
it on Bix; if there's a demand, I'll send it off to the
comp.binaries.amiga moderators. I had to use it once (to get
RawDoFmt() for 1.2) and it worked fine.

>>	editor: a >free< one, not shareware (or worse).
>
>I suggest DME.  Available in the j.cc.purdue.EDU archives.  Only real
>problem is the author reversed the cursor keys from the accepted standard :-).

 MG is also quite good, especially if you improve it a bit (window
iconification is very easy to do, and is a big win).

>
>>	Any other development tools that people think are useful.
>
>In order:
>
>ASDG recoverable ram disk (*if* it is legal to distribute in your manner)!!
>MemWatch
>morerows 
>Conman V1.1

 You can substitute Matt Dillon/Steve Drew's shell (with the titlebar
hack ideally) for Conman V1.1. I actually prefer csh to Conman because
I can always get a stock CLI. csh also has quite a few built in
commands, understands wildcards, and does some other Unix-like things.

 Of course, if people want a really good free C compiler, there's
always GNU C. Has anyone managed to port this? I've gotten as far as a
tm-amiga.h file, but am currently hung up on making it emit xrefs for
external symbols (Manx's as doesn't like undefined symbols). I'd be
very grateful if anyone has already fixed this problem, or made it
use 16-bit ints.

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