Just to close off my original request, I have now successfully recompiled C68 (as XTC68) under Open Watcom C Version 1.8 and MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) GCC 3.4.5. The latter version is useful because it integrates very well with the MinGW environment and allows MinGW Make to be used to build QDOS C projects in exactly the same way as C/C++ projects for Win32.
MinGW is here: http://www.mingw.org/ It wasn't quite as simple as just recompiling, unfortunately. I did find a couple of very well hidden bugs that caused memory faults in the as68 assembler and qld linker. I don't think these would ever have showed up before because of the environments that I was compiling under. I have also fixed some really trivial things like missing function prototypes and type casts (the things that throw warnings when compiling that distract you from spotting _real_ problems). As the principal aim (for me) of compiling the XTC68 version of C68 was to integrate with the MinGW environment, using MinGW Make, I have renamed some of the tools to avoid clashes with the equivalent GCC tools. The versions compiled under Watcom retain their original names. Tool Watcom Name MinGW Name ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Assembler as68 qas Compiler c68 qc Front End qcc qcc Linker qld qld Pre-Processor qcpp qpp Make Utility make qmake Additionally, in keeping with the 'Unix-like' environment that MinGW provides, the MinGW tools work with object files with a .o extension while the Watcom tools (for use under vanilla Win32) use .obj Current status: Component Working Not Working ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ qas.exe MinGW, Watcom qc.exe MinGW, Watcom qcc.exe MinGW, Watcom qld.exe MinGW, Watcom qmake.exe MinGW Watcom (haven't got around to it yet) qpp.exe MinGW, Watcom As soon as I get the time I will also build the SROFF Library Manager (slb) which will complete the toolset. As a test I used the MinGW versions to compile and link version 1.11 of the Shell and am pleased to report that everything worked perfectly, producing a QDOS executable that (once its header was restored) ran perfectly under QPC2. If anyone is in the least bit interested in these tools I am happy to make the updated sources and executables available. Acknowledgements and thanks to Dave Walker (the true Guardian and Guru of C68) for all of his work in maintaining the original sources. Regards, Adrian _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
