Building OSLib under Linux

[Tony van der Hoff]

Hi,

I have (finally) completed my project to allow OSLib to be built under
Linux. The whole thing, including the StrongHelp manual can be built in 10
minutes on my 1.1GHz Linux box, as opposed to 3 hours on my RISC PC :-) It
is fully my intention to use this build process for future releases.

No doubt I've done something wrong, somewhere, so I'd be grateful if you
guys with linux could check out the branch, labelled unix-build, and give it
a bashing. 

If all is well, I'll merge the branch back into the main trunk. I don't
think it contains Tom's latest fixes to the library (because I can't figure
out how to merge the trunk into the branch), but it is certainly up to the
latest release tag.

It requires the GCCSDK cross-tools, and expects to find them in the default
place: /home/riscos/cross. In particular, it requires the latest checked-in
version of as; make sure that you get this from the GCCSDK trunk.

The build produces the usual wide and deep RISC OS format libraries, and a
new unix format library, as well as the Support library, and StrongHelp
manual.

The branch can still be built under RISC OS too; it now requires the latest
AMU from the Castle tool set (or possibly make from the GCCSDK; I've not
tried it). 

Oh, and thanks to Druck for his portable OSLib, to help get this project
moving :-)

Cheers, 

Tony
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