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1.1     ! root        1: How to compile MiNT 0.96 with PureC
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        !             7: Julian F. Reschke, 19. Oktober 1992
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        !             9: email: [email protected]
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        !            15: (1) Special files
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        !            19: First of all, you need a special osbind.h. This is because Pure's own 
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        !            21: version differs in some small details from the GCC header files. You 
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        !            23: can't use Pure's tos.h, either, because in its latest versions it already 
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        !            25: defines some of MiNT's data structures. You can either leave osbind.h in 
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        !            27: the MiNT source directory, or copy it to your PureC include folder. If you 
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        !            29: are using the MiNT library, all should work fine without this file.
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        !            33: This is all what's needed. You can either use the command line versions 
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        !            35: of PureC, or you can use the PureC shell. I am compiling MiNT with GNU 
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        !            37: make (latest version at atari.archive.umich.edu should work fine) and a 
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        !            39: self-made 'cc' command, that I've specially written for the PureC command 
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        !            41: line versions (see makefile.pcc). This tool is still being tested, and 
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        !            43: I've not yet decided how to distribute it. If you are interested, write to 
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        !            45: me.
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        !            49: If you're going to use the PureC shell, you'll have to 'manually' 
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        !            51: translate the .spp files to the PASM syntax using asmtrans.ttp. The 
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        !            53: syntax is
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        !            57: asmtrans -purec -o outfile.s outfile.spp
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        !            61: genmagic.ttp is needed to create the file magic.i, which in turn is 
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        !            63: included by the .spp files.
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        !            69: (2) Things to do
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        !            73: So far, I've made no attempt to translate asmtrans with PureC. Try it 
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        !            75: yourself (you'll need alloca; might work with the MiNT library version 
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        !            77: for PureC) or compile them with gcc.
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        !            83: (3) Caveats
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        !            87: This is a preliminary 'port'. It seems to work fine on my machine, but 
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        !            89: this guarantees nothing:
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        !            93: There's still a conflict in the way PureC saves registers with what MiNT 
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        !            95: file system drivers or device drivers expect. That's why minix.xfs will 
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        !            97: bomb. There are two solutions: change it in the kernel, or change PureC. 
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        !            99: Both are being currently considered. Note that the same problem will 
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        !           101: arise if you try to write drivers with PureC.
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