OSLib and ELF

[David J. Ruck]

John Tytgat <John.Tytgat at aaug.net> wrote:
> For me it is simply a choice where I burn my developer time. A priority
> choice.  No technical reasons.  Currently we have to different sets of
> Makefiles, one for RISC OS native build and one for the cross-compile
> build. 

No one is suggesting you have to do it all, as long as you don't make any
changes to the actual sources which prevent it building with the native
tools.

> Making ELF changes in the cross-compile build will not result in
> ELF support for the native build. 

Obviously.

> And on top of that, we don't have yet GCCSDK 4 on RISC OS itself.

Yes we do. The loader issues means it isn't yet suitable for production
code, but its more than sufficient to be able to tackle any transitional
issues now.
 
> It's time to have the ELF changes for OSLib officialised so that test ELF
> builds can be done and QAed.  Like e.g. NetSurf.

So you already have a cross compiled ELF OSLib? It would have saved me a
lot of work if you said when I asked about it a couple of months ago.

Cheers
---Dave

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