Re: [MiNT] Some MiNT software

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

2010/9/2 Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> Hello.
>
> I have cross-compiled some classic GNU/Linux software for MiNT (only 68000
> CPU). Everything is available here:
> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/mint/
> The binaries are named *-bin-mint-*.tar.bz2 and are ready to be unpacked and
> used on a standard MiNT system. Beware, there is no uninstall feature.
>
> I don't want to make a new distribution, I simply wanted to see the things
> on my own. And it works very well ! I had to make very little patching to
> compile most packages. This is due to the excellent UNIX-like compatibility
> provided by the FreeMiNT kernel and the MiNTLib.
>
> For each package, I have included the sources, the patch (if necessary), the
> build script (for cross-compiling) and the binary package. As the official
> source packages are not always as clean as expected, my build scripts
> contain some valuable tricks to allow cross-compilation for MiNT. It will be
> possible to confront my build scripts and patches with the ones shipped with
> SpareMiNT and Gentoo packages, to determine the best settings as a standard
> choice for the MiNT platform.
>
> For my personal usage, I have made a minimal FreeMiNT distribution using
> ARAnyM, the latest daily build of the FreeMiNT kernel, and those packages.
> It works only on the full-screen BIOS console (no GEM), but it is enough to
> test textmode software.
>
> For me, the biggest interest of that stuff is having been able to recompile
> everything, using the latest sources and compiler. So it will be possible to
> recompile everything again for ColdFire, simply by changing the CPU option
> in the build scripts. It will be possible to run that software on ColdFire
> machines as soon as FreeMiNT will be fully patched for ColdFire.
>
> More than the classic command-line tools, I have compiled some less common
> packages, useful for Atari people:
> - The packers: ncompress, gzip, bzip2, xz
> - The archivers: tar, arc, lha, zip, arj, zoo
> - tofrodos: dos2unix, unix2dos
> - util-linux-ng: more, cal, whereis...
> - ctris: a textmode Tetris ! Works well on TosWin and Conholio
>
> I will not support those packages, but if they can be useful for someone,
> for testing or making RPMs, enjoy :-)
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière
>
Thanks

As always, very useful..

Paul