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MiNT 1.12

How to compile MiNT 1.12 with PureC

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Julian F. Reschke, 5. Juni 1994

email: [email protected]





(1) Special files



First of all, you need a special osbind.h. This is because Pure's own 

version differs in some small details from the GCC header files. You 

can't use Pure's tos.h, either, because in its latest versions it already 

defines some of MiNT's data structures. You can either copy osbind.h into 

the MiNT source directory or copy it into your PureC include folder. If 

you are using the MiNT library, all should work fine without this file.



This is all what's needed. You can either use the command line versions 

of PureC, or you can use the PureC shell (copy mintpure.prj to the source 

directory). I am compiling MiNT with GNU make (latest version at 

atari.archive.umich.edu should work fine) and a self-made 'cc' command, 

that I've specially written for the PureC command line versions (see 

makefile.pcc). This tool is available from ftp.uni-muenster.de, 

pub/atari/Tools/prgtl*.tos.



If you're going to use the PureC shell, you'll have to 'manually' 

translate the .spp files to the PASM syntax using asmtrans.ttp. The 

syntax is



asmtrans -purec -o outfile.s outfile.spp



genmagic.ttp is needed to create the file magic.i, which in turn is 

included by the .spp files.





(2) Things to do



So far, I've made no attempt to translate asmtrans with PureC. Try it 

yourself (you'll need alloca; might work with the MiNT library version 

for PureC) or compile them with gcc.





(3) Caveats



This is a preliminary 'port'. It seems to work fine on my machine, but 

this guarantees nothing:



There's still a conflict in the way PureC saves registers with what MiNT 

file system drivers or device drivers expect. You will have to use PureC 

1.1 to get the correct behaviour.

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