Norman,
Converting the SMSQ/E assembler source to use the AS68 assembler is unlikely to be practical. It does not understand the concept of macros, and is not very good at relocatable code! It was designed specifically to be an assembler that backends a compiler - not one that is used directly by an assembler programmer. The other tools in the C68 suite (MAKE, LD) will work fine though. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QL (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: [ql-users] Tools required to build the SMSQ source > > People, > > don't forget that just because you can now get your hands on the source code > for SMSQ, that everything else is free too. This is not the case. Because > I've been working on the source and sending emails to the list, I've been > asked to supply the tools to do the assembling and linking. I cannot do this > because these tools are still commercial products. > > Tony Tebby uses QMAC to assemble, his own linker to link (but Marcel says > that QLINK will work too) and to make life easier for himself, he uses QMAKE > to build everything easily. I'm assuming he paid for these tools himself - > so why shouldn't we? > > Please don't send me any more emails asking for QMAC etc - send them to > Quanta. > For QMAKE, contact Jochen Merz. > > Alternatively, if you absolutely must have free tools, why not download Dave > Walker's C68 package and convert the source to use AS68, ld and make as > supplied in that package. Or, if you don't use QPC, get hold of George > Gwilt's excellent GWASS - but you may have to rewrite the macros Tony uses > to suit the macro language of GWASS. > > (Just remember that this won't be acceptable as part of the official source > under the advice given in the Style Guide from Marcel.) > > Thanks. > > > Regards, > Norman. > > ------------------------------------- > Norman Dunbar > Database/Unix administrator > Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 0113 289 6265 > Fax: 0113 289 3146 > URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com > ------------------------------------- > This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy > it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the > addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email > and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx > Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. >
