Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!golf.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@golf.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Sozobon C Message-ID: <75217@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 2 Jan 90 19:05:18 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 84 Some time ago I asked if anybody knew anything about Sozobon C for the Amiga (FF193). Here're some excerpts of the replies I got: From philce!joostv@relay.EU.net Thu Nov 30 04:20:22 1989 Well, the problem mainly is no standard library and NO WORKING STARTUP CODE! If you find one mail! PLEASE! Joost From dunike!onecom!wldrdg!hans@ncar.UCAR.EDU Fri Dec 1 16:33:55 1989 Jeff Lydiatt has done the most recent work with Sozobon for the amiga ( try uunet!van-bc!jlami!jlydiatt ). I believe it works okay. The biggest problem is that you will need to get the headers and amiga.lib from Commodore (mail $20 to CATS) if you dont already have a C compiler (and if you do, why bother with Sozobon). Please summarize what you hear from others. I suspect Sozobon C gets very little use because of the lack of freely re-distributable headers and amiga.lib. Johann Ruegg Sozobon Ltd. uunet!isis!onecom!wldrdg!hans From rsoft!mindlink!a218@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca Sun Dec 3 01:02:49 1989 I'm using zc to develop A68k. It was wonderful to get a C compiler good enough to handle it, because then I could move my A68k development off MS-DOS (whew!). It's not the fastest compiler in the world, nor does it generate the smallest code (A68k comes out at about 82,000 bytes, as opposed to 50,000 when I get friends to compile it with Manx or Lattice) but it does the job and the price is right. I tried using an earlier version of PDC, which works fine for a number of programs that I've written, but it had a bug that caused caused it to generate bad code when compiling A68k. Lionel Hummel tells me that it's been fixed, though, and some day when I find the time I'll try the new version. Looks like the Manx/Lattice competition has a freely-distributable counterpart in zc vs. PDC. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP From JFS10@PSUVM.BITNET Mon Dec 4 09:10:23 1989 I recently received my copy of ZC on FF193. If you have this and no other C complier, you must get the include files and the lib files for linkage. These files plus some readme's can be downloaded form the software distilleries BBS. You can get the phone number from their BLink software or you can send me mail and will get the number. It is mentioned in the docs that the includes are the standard includes, you most get the Amiga includes from C=. The files that must be downloaded are: ZCBin.zoo ZCIncld.zoo (I think thats the name) ZCRdme.zoo ZCLib.zoo The FF disk is incomplete. You really should get this stuff, the docs are even a little bit more substantial. The BBS also has the newest version of Charlie Gibbs A68k assembler. Jonathan Swaby -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Anybody know where I can get a phone with a backspace key?