shebs@Apple.COM (Stan Shebs) (12/01/90)
In yesterday's announcement of the release of MPW GCC, I said that you need to have MPW C in order to use GCC. Some people were confused, so here's a clarification: MPW GCC is actually a script "gC" and a pair of tools "cpp" and "cc1". Their output is an assembly file that must be passed through Asm. So, the MPW C compiler is not directly involved. If you have your own includes and C runtime libraries, you can use those to build apps, but most people are going to want to use the set that comes with MPW C (and which is *not* included in the GCC distribution). MPW GCC can compile itself, but it also assumes that the MPW C includes and libraries are available. Too, in order to build a GCC that will run on 68000+SANE machines, it is necessary to compile it with MPW C (a bug that we've never fixed, sorry). Finally, we assume that GCC users already have a copy of the MPW C manual, so we don't include any details about Apple's C extensions. To summarize, MPW C is not strictly necessary to use MPW GCC, but it's not really practical to use MPW GCC without it. Stan Shebs Apple ATG System Software
jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) (12/05/90)
Dear Stan - Actually, people can purchase the MPW Toolbox Interfaces and Libraries, which includes all of the Assembly, C, and Pascal interfaces and libararies. -- Jordan Mattson UUCP: jordan@apple.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Development Tools Product Management AppleLink: Mattson1 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd, MS 75-8X Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis