Hello dear developers and maintainers of TCC, I've started to be interested into trying to port the TCC compiler on a graphical calculator, the ones manufactured by NumWorks (a French startup).
NumWorks calculators use ARM micro-controllers (specifically, STM32 micro-controllers). As stated by the manufacturer: This chip combines an ARMv7-M Cortex-M7 core, clocked at 216 MHz and 256K of Static RAM. (see https://www.numworks.com/engineering/hardware/electrical/parts/#stm32f730v8t6 if needed) I'm trying to understand on my own how I need to use TCC's `configure` and `make` commands, in order to produce a few files like libtcc.c/libtcc.h. I would like to embed the awesome TCC's "load, compile & run" features, in a C application for this NumWorks calculator. I have an app that reads a file locally edited on the calculator, and runs it on a Lua interpreter (or JavaScript), and the calculator ships with MicroPython already working well. My goal is to offer the same kind of features but for a C program, which could be edited on the calculator, read and ran by the "TCC interpreter" application. # Here are a few questions: 1. how to use libtcc on an embedded ARM 32bits micro-controller? If I follow the ideas of the libtcc_test.c file (https://github.com/Tiny-C-Compiler/tinycc-mirror-repository/blob/mob/tests/libtcc_test.c), will it work directly if I cross-compile the resulting C program to my ARMv7-M CPU architecture for my NumWorks calculator? I see in the libtcc.c file that there is an option TCC_TARGET_ARM, so I should enable it, include libtcc.h and "that's it" ? (https://github.com/Tiny-C-Compiler/tinycc-mirror-repository/blob/b6a16e3be4aff2d6b6e4870a1fde5e83707e9be4/libtcc.c#L36C22-L36C22) 2. Is there any documentation I can follow, by any chance? Regarding any of these questions. 3. Does anybody already tried such a thing, for instance for Texas Instrument or Casio calculators? I saw that someone did port the GTC C compiler about 13 years ago, for Texas Instrument calculators, but I don't find any other mentions. (here https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1000) Kind regards, and thanks in advance; -- Lilian Besson, Professor of Computer Science at Lycée Kléber, in Strasbourg (France) web : https://Besson.link/ ; phone : +33628412257 email. : lil...@besson.link or lilian.bes...@crans.org _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
