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1.1.1.3 ! root        1: How to compile MiNT 1.08 with PureC
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1.1.1.3 ! root        7: Julian F. Reschke, 25. Juni 1993
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1.1.1.3 ! root        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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1.1.1.2   root       25: defines some of MiNT's data structures. You can either copy osbind.h into 
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1.1.1.2   root       27: the MiNT source directory or copy it into your PureC include folder. If 
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1.1.1.2   root       29: you 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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1.1.1.2   root       35: of PureC, or you can use the PureC shell (copy mintpure.prj to the source 
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1.1.1.2   root       37: directory). I am compiling MiNT with GNU make (latest version at 
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1.1.1.2   root       39: atari.archive.umich.edu should work fine) and a self-made 'cc' command, 
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1.1.1.2   root       41: that I've specially written for the PureC command line versions (see 
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1.1.1.2   root       43: makefile.pcc). This tool is still being tested, and I've not yet decided 
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1.1.1.2   root       45: how to distribute it. If you are interested, write to 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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                     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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                     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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1.1.1.2   root       95: file system drivers or device drivers expect. You will have to use PureC 
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1.1.1.2   root       97: 1.1 to get the correct behaviour.
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