MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET (Jim McCabe) (02/18/90)
I have recently reviewed some of the information about the ST port of
GNU C and am *extremely* impressed! I'd like to use the package soon,
but I would prefer to write and compile my code on a Sun, then transfer
the binaries over to my ST later.
How difficult would this be? Will the package compile normally on the
standard Sun C compiler? Any help would be appreciated.
If possible, send me mail directly (to MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET) since I don't
get the chance to read these groups as often as I like...
Jim McCabe
MCCABE @ MTUS5.BITNEThyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (02/20/90)
In article <90049.103934MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET> you write: >I have recently reviewed some of the information about the ST port of >GNU C and am *extremely* impressed! I'd like to use the package soon, >but I would prefer to write and compile my code on a Sun, then transfer >the binaries over to my ST later. > >How difficult would this be? Will the package compile normally on the >standard Sun C compiler? Any help would be appreciated. This is easy to do, trivial in fact. But, you better have a lot of disk space. The first step is to build the standard Sun version of gcc, then use that to build the cross-compiler version. (Just takes editing a few config files to select which version to build.) Once you have the cross-compile built, you can compile the TOS C library on the Sun as well, tho you don't need to (the binary is usually already included). Then, just compile and link - you get TOS executables with no sweat at all. Transfer to ST and run. Hey - y'know, there's a Unix program distributed with Minix that simulates a PC. How hard could it be to put together a TOS simulator to run on, say, a Sun or NeXT box...( or Atari TT, for that matter!)?? -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan