Compiling under Unix/Linux

[David J. Ruck]

On 9 Jan 2003 Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> That's what the current tools BuildHelp and IndexHelp do - It's a long time
> since we relied on StrongHelp itself. Touble is - as I admitted - they're
> written for OSLib file system calls, these need translating to C.

I do have a very limited port of OSLib to standard C library functions that I
use with DiscKnight, ARMalyser etc. It handles quite a bit of the filing
system stuff, and I can add more if needed.

>>> So, although Defmod works OK, there is quite a lot of peripheral tidying
>>> up to be done, and that's why it isn't yet available. I believe it will
>>> be worthwhile, if only in terms of time-saving during the build process.
>> 
>> Quite - I've never managed to build OSLib on my Risc PC yet - but it takes
>> minutes on my Linux box :-).

Well who knows, when the Iyonix has UDMA enabled, it might be able to build
in around 5 minutes.
 
> A full build (including Help) takes 2 hours on a SARPC, over a 10B2
> network!

Well thats just silly isn't it :*)

Cheers
---Dave

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