OSLib 6.11 Released

[Chris Rutter]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, David J.Ruck wrote:

> This has caused considerable hassle for those of use who are building RISC OS
> applications on other platorms (either to use superior debugging tools or
> to build with cross compilers which aren't currently available for RISC OS).

This mystifies me a bit.

Debugging tools from other platforms are generally very little use if,
at the end of the day, you still have to emit AOF-derived AIF.  Debugging
tools tend to be active in requiring the active target platform, and
thus gdb and friends aren't an option.

Cross-compiling large RISC OS tools with any success has only ever really
been done on RISCiX that I've ever heard; and this was mainly so that
CVS could be used easily.

There is Nick Burrett's work on getting gcc 2.95.x to run as a RISC OS
cross-compiler on POSIX platforms, but I don't see the huge benefit in
that over the native port for the majority of applications.

c.