Compiling under Unix/Linux

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 9 Jan 2003, in message <87fe37b24b.druck at druck.freeuk.net>,
David J. Ruck <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>  
I can't actually see myself buying an Iyonix. That's not to say I wouldn't
want one, but 1200 quid - ouch!

> > A full build (including Help) takes 2 hours on a SARPC, over a 10B2
> > network!
> 
> Well thats just silly isn't it :*)
> 
well, yes, but it gets me down the pub ;-)

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